Successful Aspide 2000 Firing in Kuwait

摘要

Another Aspide 2000 success in Kuwait reaffirms the missile's status as a major aircraft buster. Fired from a Skyguard air defence system, the Aspide 2000 missiles brought down two Banshee remotely piloted targets at the Kuwait Air Defence Brigade's ADEIRA range during a live firing air defence exercise carried out on Dec 18-19.. 2012. Both targets were destroyed, in one case by a direct hit and in the other by a close-range explosion. Intercept took place at a range of around 6km and at an altitude of around 1,500m.