# Modern Warfare

**URL:** https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/t/modern-warfare/3858
**Category:** The Happening World
**Tags:** war, military, military-technology
**Created:** [13 October 2023 13:38 UTC](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/t/modern-warfare/3858 "2023-10-13T13:38:28Z")
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#### Post date: [2 November 2023 16:57 UTC](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/t/modern-warfare/3858/26 "2023-11-02T16:57:53Z")

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**Space War**

On 2023-10-31, the first combat engagement in history to occur outside the Earth’s atmosphere took place. [_LiveJournal_ reports in Russian](https://fonzeppelin.livejournal.com/294896.html), machine-translated to English below.

![image](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/uploads/default/original/3X/5/e/5e7da7e499d0402ada28c53b21cfd19df3ab8d42.jpeg)

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[OSINT adds](https://twitter.com/UKikaski/status/1719850623057723599):

> On October 31, 2023, humanity discovered the history of war in Space. The interception of the warhead of a Yemeni medium-range ballistic missile by an Israeli Arrow-3 missile became the first combat operation to take place outside the earth’s atmosphere.
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> This is also the first time that a medium-range ballistic missile has been destroyed by an anti-missile missile in a real combat situation. All previous cases of interception of ballistic missiles were interceptions of short-range ballistic missiles or generally operational-tactical ones. An intermediate-range ballistic missile is a much more difficult target because it flies faster and follows a higher trajectory. Actually, this was also the first time a medium-range ballistic missile was launched in a real combat situation.
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> Israeli missile defense has successfully completed the task. Yemeni missile was destroyed outside the atmosphere; her load, whatever it was, dissipated harmlessly tens of kilometers above the ground. In the confrontation between the ballistic sword and the anti-missile shield, the first round was left to the defense.

Here is more about the [Arrow 3](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arrow_3) anti-ballistic missile system. This is video of a 2015 test launch and intercept.

[![](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/uploads/default/original/3X/b/5/b59de71e720dfbd40375cadaec85a6d8aa9f7e4a.jpeg "Arrow 3 Ballistic Missile Interceptor - Successful Target Intercept") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uchQlOqWMBA)

While the interception is believed to have occurred below the 100 km [Kármán line](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K%C3%A1rm%C3%A1n_line), the international standard for the edge of space, the incoming missile, believed to be a [Burkan-2](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burkan-2), derivative of the ancient Soviet [SS-1 “Scud”](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scud_missile), would have flown above this threshold before being intercepted on its ballistic descent toward Israel.

War in space is no longer “futuristic science fiction stuff”.

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