Direct proof of use
Mk 82-class Paveway use in the 2014 Yemen Civil War is documented through recovered munition remnants from Saudi/UAE-led coalition airstrikes. Mwatana for Human Rights, the University Network for Human Rights, and PAX reported a U.S.-made GBU-12 Paveway II laser-guided bomb with a Mk 82 warhead at an April 30, 2015 strike in Dar Saad District, Aden governorate.
Human Rights Watch reported that its researchers found remnants of two U.S.-made GBU-12 Paveway II laser-guided 500-pound bombs at the September 10, 2016 Arhab water-drilling-site strike in Sanaa governorate. Bellingcat later identified a GBU-12 Paveway II wing-assembly remnant after an April 2018 wedding strike in Hajjah governorate, and Amnesty International identified a U.S.-made 500-pound GBU-12 Paveway II from remnant photographs after a June 28, 2019 strike in Taiz governorate.
Sources: Day Of Judgment, HRW US-Made Bombs Yemen, Bellingcat Yemen Wedding GBU-12, Amnesty Taiz GBU-12
Timeline
The documented public record begins in April 2015, shortly after the coalition intervention, with Mwatana's Dar Saad case. HRW's September 2016 Arhab investigation documents GBU-12 remnants in Sanaa governorate, while Bellingcat's April 2018 investigation ties another GBU-12 wing assembly to a Hajjah wedding strike and notes earlier Yemen examples of the same bomb type.
Amnesty's September 2019 reporting extended the record into the later war period by identifying a GBU-12 Paveway II from stenciling on a guidance fin after the June 28, 2019 Warzan village strike in Taiz governorate.
Sources: Day Of Judgment, HRW US-Made Bombs Yemen, Bellingcat Yemen Wedding GBU-12, Amnesty Taiz GBU-12
Role in coalition air operations
The documented user was the Saudi/UAE-led coalition conducting airstrikes in support of Yemen's internationally recognized government. The sources used here identify the munition from remnants and attack context; they generally do not identify the specific aircraft or national air force responsible for each individual strike.
The weapon appears in Yemen as an air-delivered precision-guided strike munition built around the 500-pound Mk 82 class. The cited record is specific to GBU-12 Paveway II or Mk 82 Paveway material. It does not independently establish Lizard-family use in Yemen, so this conflict page treats Lizard as part of the parent catalog entry's broader guidance-kit family rather than as a Yemen-specific identification.
Sources: Day Of Judgment, HRW US-Made Bombs Yemen, Bellingcat Yemen Wedding GBU-12, Amnesty Taiz GBU-12
