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Warhead with Metal-Cube Fragmentation

Quds-1 land-attack cruise missile · At sea: Arabian Sea · November 25, 2019

1. Seized itemAt sea: Arabian Sea · November 25, 2019

   Warhead with Metal-Cube Fragmentation

   Maker or origin, in the source's words

   The passage names no maker

   Weapon system

   Quds-1 land-attack cruise missile

   Recovered

   Missile seized from a dhow

   Documented by

   UN Panel of Experts on Yemen, S/2020/326, annex 16, para. 6, p. 98

   Read the passage

   The Panel has been able to inspect those sections and has noted that the missile's warhead (in section 1) contains fragmentation in the form of the same metal cubes, which the Panel has documented in the damaged piping at Khureys after the attack on 14 September 2019.

   United Nations Security Council, Panel of Experts on Yemen, "Final Report of the Panel of Experts on Yemen," S/2020/326, April 28, 2020, annex 16, para. 6, p. 98. UN Panel finding. Copy read from reliefweb.int on 2026-10-17; sha256 c9dd4687657a.

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