{"id":40758,"date":"2024-03-21T07:56:51","date_gmt":"2024-03-21T04:56:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/video-french-navy-helicopter-shoots-down-a-houthi-drone\/40758\/"},"modified":"2024-03-21T07:56:51","modified_gmt":"2024-03-21T04:56:51","slug":"video-french-navy-helicopter-shoots-down-a-houthi-drone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/video-french-navy-helicopter-shoots-down-a-houthi-drone\/40758\/","title":{"rendered":"Video: French Navy Helicopter Shoots Down a Houthi Drone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p>Houthi suicide drones are imposing a high cost on Western navies in the Red Sea &#8211; not because any of the group&#039;s munitions have hit a government vessel, but because of the multimillion-dollar expense of shooting them down. This week, a French frigate demonstrated a more cost-effective approach to defeating low-and-slow drone attacks: a helicopter chase.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In a video released by France&#039;s defense ministry, a helicopter from an unnamed French frigate tracked a slow-moving Houthi drone as it entered the shipping lanes of the Red Sea. While not shown, the audio suggests that the aircrew&#039;s door gunner shot the UAV down.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-media-max-width=\"560\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"fr\">EUNAVFOR ASPIDES ???????? | Interception par l&#039;h&eacute;licopt&egrave;re de la fr&eacute;gate ???????? d&#039;un drone a&eacute;rien en provenance du Y&eacute;men mena&ccedil;ant le trafic maritime civil en mer Rouge.<br \/>\n?? La priorit&eacute;: assurer la libert&eacute; de navigation et la s&ucirc;ret&eacute; maritime de Suez &agrave; Ormuz <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/pJjwPK2c8b\">https:\/\/t.co\/pJjwPK2c8b<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/KQ8DD17hRL\">pic.twitter.com\/KQ8DD17hRL<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Arm&eacute;e fran&ccedil;aise &#8211; Op&eacute;rations militaires (@EtatMajorFR) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/EtatMajorFR\/status\/1770479631545532591?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 20, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>At a cost per round of about $0.50-1.00, plus the $5-10,000 hourly operating cost of the helicopter, the price of downing the drone was far less than what it would have been with the Aster air-defense missiles carried by the same frigate. This is not hypothetical: a French warship recently used a multi-million-dollar Aster to destroy a drone within visual range, below. (The crew also had an opportunity to take down a drone with the main deck gun, a less expensive but dangerously close engagement.)<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-media-max-width=\"560\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Full footage of a French Aquitaine-class frigate engaging an incoming Houthi drone with an Aster SAM in the Red Sea. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/5AxYLY8wQZ\">pic.twitter.com\/5AxYLY8wQZ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; OSINTtechnical (@Osinttechnical) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Osinttechnical\/status\/1770148075924844579?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 19, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>France is participating in the Red Sea air defense mission under the auspices of the EU&#039;s Operation Aspides, a strictly defensive coalition under a separate command structure from the U.S.-led Operation Prosperity Guardian. &nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>maritime-executive<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Houthi suicide drones are imposing a high cost on Western navies in the Red Sea &#8211; not because any of the group&#039;s munitions have hit a government vessel, but because of the multimillion-dollar expense of shooting them down. This week, a French frigate demonstrated a more cost-effective approach to defeating low-and-slow drone attacks: a helicopter &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":40759,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[2667,668,5614,8806,1089,6721,2904],"class_list":["post-40758","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-maritime-news","tag-drone","tag-french","tag-helicopter","tag-houthi","tag-navy","tag-shoots","tag-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40758","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40758"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40758\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/media\/40759"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}