A ballistic missile was fired by the Houthis from Yemen and flew nearly 1,000 miles (1,600 kilometers) across the Arabian Peninsula towards the Israeli port city of Eilat
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Sputnik According to The Telegraph, Israel this week used its Arrow missile defense system to shoot down a ballistic missile outside Earth’s atmosphere, the first “space combat” on record.
The ballistic missile was fired by the Houthis in Yemen and flew nearly 1,600 miles across the Arabian Peninsula en route to its target, the Israeli port city of Eilat.
Although the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) has revealed few details about the interception, it is known that the air force operates several batteries of the Arrow2 system, which uses a hypersonic interceptor to intercept incoming missiles in space.
In a statement, the IDF said the air force’s systems tracked the missile’s trajectory and intercepted it “at the most appropriate time and location.”
Images from Eilat showed a plume of smoke from the Arrow interceptor, accompanied by reports from local residents of a large explosion.
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The Yemeni Houthis also released images of the alleged Qader missile an improved version of the Iraniandeveloped Shahab 3 loaded with a highexplosive warhead being fired at Israeli cities as part of a barrage of drones and other longrange weapons. .
The missile fired by the Houthis is precisely the threat that Israel’s Arrow system, first deployed about 25 years ago, was designed to counter.
The joint U.S.Israel Arrow project grew out of the need to give Tel Aviv a way to defend itself after Israeli cities were hit by Iraqi Scud missiles in the first Gulf War.
While other missile defense systems were originally designed to shoot down aircraft and had to be adapted to shoot down longrange ballistic missiles at much higher altitudes and at much higher speeds, the Arrow was, according to the media, the first system designed specifically for this purpose.