Source: Africanmilitaryblog
Tigray: UAE drones supports Ethiopia
It appears that the United Arab Emirates have begun conducting drone strikes against Tigray with its Wing Loong II UCAVs stationed in Eritrea.
Tigray and TPLF leader Getachew Ruda today in a recent tweet claimed that United Arab Emirates UAVs are supporting Ethiopian forces and Assab city of Eritrea is serving as drone base for UAE.
Fighting between Ethiopian forces and Tigray fighters in Tigray region of Ethiopia continues unabated, on Sunday 15 November, leader of the TPLF Debretsion Gebremichael said that his forces fired a volley of rockets at neighbouring Eritrea’s capital, Asmara.
“Those who attack Tigray will not just attack and return home. We will retaliate while they are here, and strike the airports from which they launched attacks,” said Debretsion. “There is no place that we can’t reach and we will continue to attack selected targets that the invading forces are using against us.”
Regarding the drone strikes, the UAE is known to operate a clandestine drone base in Assab airport, in Eritrea to support military operations across the Red Sea in Yemen, and has deployed several Wing Loong II unmanned combat aerial vehicles it acquired from China.
The UAE purchased a Wing Loong II from China in 2017, and Predator drones from the US in 2013. Also, UAE possess the indigenously produced United 40 UCAV which first flew in 2013, and has ordered additional Seeker 400 UAVs from South Africa.
Satellite imagery from DigitalGlobe images taken from 3 August 2018 shows a Wing Loong II UCAV deployed in Assab Airport, Eritrea.
Prior to the deployment, Eritrean and the United Arab Emirates Air Force officials constructed two new 26×21 metres aircraft shelters in early March of that year.
UAE Air Force Dassault Mirage 2000 jets and IOMAX Archangel turboprops are also housed in the shelter.
Several UAE operated Wing Loong II UCAVs are also in Libya on the side of the Libyan National Army, with some lost to ground fire and electronic warfare activities.
Shocking & humiliation to Ethiopia; Ethiopia has never been sunk as she is now in her history
That is nice .the terrorist group TPLF deserve more. Eritrean hub, you are really b***h
There is no place that we can’t reach and we will continue to attack selected targets that the invading forces are using against us.”
Recalled me the boasting “even if you are in the heaven or hell, said the police commander of tplf in Addis Ababa to VOA “
Abiy, Stop your attack on Tigray!
People of Eritrea don’t allow your government to attack Tigray, do not let UAE use Assab to attack Tigray with drones.
People of Eritrea, People of Ethiopia, don’t allow them to continue their attack on Tigray.
Dear, do you know the people of Eritrea today. Where were you been this people displaced from Ethiopia during the redgim of dectator Meles Zenaw. But the people of Ethiopia from Gonder, Bahir Dar, Markos and others have been returned their house and full property after 30 years ago when your TPLF down.
We Ethiopians support our leader and Ethiopian army to use any force neccesary to destroy the tplf Junta out of the face of the earth
Whatever goes around comes back around, remember how brutal Melezanawi regime was and how TPLF used to kill and massacre women and CHILDREN in Somali region as well as Oromia, its now their turn to feel the pain, the hardship and the hell they got us through. The happiest day of my life is when ethiopia disintegrates and like the fall of the soviet Union, so many smaller countries emerge out of what once called Ethiopia.
Let Oromia, Somalis, Tigray and all the other regions be freed and become a country of their own.. let Ethiopia disappear out of google map and let more countries be created in East Africa. Let everyone mind their business.