Claims that Yemeni rebels shot down a Saudi warplane have spotlighted the increasingly potent Houthi arsenal cause for alarm in Riyadh as fighting escalates amid faltering efforts to end the five-year conflict.
The Iranians-backed Houthi rebels said they downed the Tornado aircraft on Friday over the volatile northern province of Al-Jawf, in a setback for the Riyadh-led military coalition that has always enjoyed air supremacy in the conflict. The fate of the two Saudi crewmen who ejected from the plane remains unknown.
The rebels, once dismissed as a ragtag militia, said they hit the jet with an "advanced surface-to-air missile". The claim followed recent UN reports that the Houthis had received weapons bearing signs of Iranian origin. Tehran has long denied arming the rebels.
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