Houthis release video of Saudi AH-6i helicopter being hit

Yemen's Houthis released footage appearing to show a Saudi National Guard AH-6i light helicopter being struck by an airborne munition near Najran, close to the Yemeni border. The Saudi-led coalition said the helicopter had instead crashed because of a technical malfunction on October 18, killing both crew members, while a Houthi spokesman initially claimed an Apache helicopter had been shot down. The object visible in the released video resembles a 358-family jet-powered surface-to-air loitering munition, known to the Houthis as Saqr. Neither the weapon identification nor the cause of the aircraft's loss has been independently established.