The United Kingdom‘s air force participated for the first time during this campaign in a recent U.S. operation earlier this week targeting the Houthis in Yemen.

Royal Air Force Typhoon FGR4s dropped Paveway IV precision-guided bombs at “a cluster of buildings” where the Houthis manufacture drones they use to attack ships in the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden, according to the U.K. Ministry of Defense.

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