Qahir-I rocket targets Strategic Storage Management in Abha


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Yemen News Agency SABA
Qahir-I rocket targets Strategic Storage Management in Abha
[02/ January/2016]

SANA’A, Jan. 02 (Saba) – The army and popular committees launched on Friday night a ballistic missile of Qahir-I type on the Saudi strategic storage management in Abha region.

A military official confirmed to Saba that the missile hit its target with high accuracy.
On December 30, Qahir-I missile was fired by the army and popular committees and targeted Jizan port.

On December 13, the army and popular committees bombarded the Saudi Khalid Bin Abdul-Aziz Air Base in Khamis Mushait using Qahir-I rocket.

On December 14, the missile force of the army and popular committees fired a Tochka missile at the enemy operations center in Bab al-Mandab in Taiz province, killing hundreds of the enemy soldiers.

Nearly 146 bodies mostly charred were transferred to Aden city and Amran camp, and a medical ship belonging to the aggression coalition reached near the coast of Aden in an attempt to help the evacuation and treatment of the injured, said the official spokesman of the armed forces Sharaf Luqman.

The initial toll of the targeting of the enemy command in Bab al-Mandab among the Blackwater company forces is 42 dead and 12 military and armored vehicles of the company were damaged, as well as the destruction of the coalition command buildings, two Patriot systems, three Apaches, and 40 military vehicles, he added.

On December 20, a Qahir-I rocket targeted Saudi hirelings at al-Tewal border crossing in Jizan, killing at least 90 of invasion troops and wounding 100 others.

On December 21, the missile forces fired a ballistic missile of Qahir-I type at Jizan Regional Airport.

On December 27, the army and popular committees launched a ballistic missile of Qahir-I type at the Saudi National Guard camp in Al-Arisah area in Najran.

Qahir-I rocket is a Russian rocket (Sam 2) which was improved locally to become surface-to-air rocket.

The military official added the rocket, Qahir-I, works in two stages; sold fuel and liquid fuel, and its length is 11 m and weighs 2 tons while it can fly over 250 km after introducing improvements to it.

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