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September 18, 2018
On September 17, a Russian Ilyushin-20 reconnaissance plane was shot down off the coast of Latakia by a Syrian S-200 air defense system, killing all 15 crew members. Russia blamed the incident on Israel which was conducting an airstrike in the vicinity against targets associated with arms transfers to Lebanese Hezbollah and did not coordinate...
September 17, 2018
On September 15, Syrian military officials reported that several Israeli missiles were intercepted near the Damascus international airport. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights stated that the strike targeted an arms depot near the airport which was previously struck by Israeli surface-to-surface missiles and is associated with Iranian and Lebanese Hezbollah arms transfers. The SOHR...
September 14, 2018
On September 14, the U.S. State Department approved South Korea to purchase 64 Patriot Advanced Capability (PAC-3) Missile Segment Enhancement (MSE) Missiles; nine Multifunctional Information Distribution System Joint Tactical Radio Systems; 42 AN/AAR-54 Missile Warning Sensors; and various support equipment. The $501 million price tag includes training and support services. The approval follows the June...
September 14, 2018
Russian personnel of the 76th Air Defense Division conducted practice intercepts against 30 missiles and other aerial threats designed to simulate a massed attack by enemy capabilities. The threats flew at altitudes ranging from 100 meters to several kilometers. Interceptors were fired from the Buk M-2, Tor, Pantsir-S, S-300, and S-400 systems. The Ministry of...
September 14, 2018
On September 14, South Korea launched KSS-III (Jangbogo-III) Dosan Ahn Chang-ho, the nation’s first missile attack submarine, in the waters in near Busan. Dosan Ahn Chango-ho had been under construction since 2016 and will likely be delivered in the next two years. It is the first of nine submarines slated to be built over the...
September 13, 2018
On September 10, Iran announced that it had successfully conducted a ballistic missile intercept test of its Bavar-373 air defense system last year. The Bavar-373 is an indigenously produced version of the Russian S-300 air defense system. Iran’s Deputy Air Defense Commander General Mahmoud Ebrahiminejad stated, “It [the Bavar-373] is more reliable and stronger than...
September 13, 2018
Between September 6 and September 12, at least three Houthi-launched missiles targeting Jizan and Najran were intercepted by Saudi air defense forces. Pro-Houthi media reported another 13 missile launches targeting Asir, Jizan, Najran, and a Coalition encampment in Yemen’s Ma’rib Province, but these could not be corroborated by Coalition or independent reports. There were no...
September 12, 2018
On September 11, the United States and Japan successfully intercepted a separating ballistic missile target with a Standard Missile-3 (SM-3) IB Threat Update (TU) interceptor off the coast of Hawaii. The Japanese Aegis destroyer JS Atago (DDG-177) fired the SM-3 and intercepted the target in the test. According to the Missile Defense Agency press release,...
September 10, 2018
Between August 30 and September 5, at least 6 Houthi-launched missiles targeting Jizan and Najran were intercepted by Saudi air defense forces. Pro-Houthi media reported another eight missile launches targeting Jizan, Najran, and Yemen’s west coast, but these could not be corroborated by Coalition or independent reports. There were no confirmed reports of Houthi-launched missiles...
September 10, 2018
On September 8, Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) attacked Kurdish opposition targets in Iraq, using surface-to-surface missiles. Al Jazeera reported that seven missiles “hit the headquarters of the Kurdistan Democratic Party of Iran (KDPI) and the Democratic Party of Iranian Kurdistan (PDKI) in the town of Koya, 300 km north of Iraq’s capital, Baghdad.” An...