Silver Sparrow
Owned By
| Operator: | Israel |
| Status: | In Service |
| Number: | The number in inventory is believed to be low considering its purpose as a target vehicle for ballistic missile defense. |
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| Acquired: | 2013 |
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| Country of origin: | Israel |
| Manufacturer: | Rafael |
| Introduced: | 2013 |
| Class: | Target Missile (High Explosive capable) |
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| Warhead: | Water, High Explosive, Inert |
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| Weight: | 6.6 lbs (3,130 kg) |
| Length: | 27.5 ft (8.39 m) |
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| Propellant: | Single Stage Solid Rocket Propellant |
| Guidance System: | GPS and Dual INS |
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| Launch Platform: | Air Launched |
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| Note: | Silver Sparrow simulates unitary and separable medium to long-range Theater Ballistic Missiles such as the SCUD-C/D, Shibab. Though capable of carrying a high explosive warhead, there is no evidence that it has ever hit a ground target. |
US-Israel Arrow-3 Intercepts Target in Space
December 10, 2015
The US-Israel Arrow Weapon System (AWS) and its Upper-Tier Arrow-3 missile scored its first intercept Thursday in a complex test designed to validate how the system can detect, identify, track and then discriminate real from decoy targets traveling quickly through space. The milestone test, conducted over the Mediterranean Sea, paves the way toward low-rate initial […]