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Cruise Missiles and Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) Deployed in the Middle East¹

Updated: April 2006

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1. This list summarizes information available from public sources. Data were drawn primarily from: David A. Fulghum, "Cruise Missile Threat Spurs Pentagon Research," Aviation Week and Space Technology Review, 7/14/97, pp. 44-45. Duncan Lennox, ed., Jane's Strategic Weapons Systems Issue 24, 5/97. "Master Tables," Centre for Defence and International Security Studies website, http://www.cdiss.org. Additional sources consulted: Aviation Week & Space Technology and The Association for Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Systems International; 1997-98 International Guide to Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1997); Jane's Defence Weekly; Cape Times; Saturday Argus; South African Press Agency (SAPA); IDR Dispatches; Foreign Defense Assistance and Defense Export Organization (SIBAT), Israel's Defense Sales Directory, 1997/98 (Tel Aviv: Ministry of Defense, 1997); Anthony H. Cordesman, Weapons of Mass Destruction in the Middle East: National Efforts, War Fighting Capabilities, Weapons Lethality, Terrorism, and Arms Control Implications (Washington, DC: Center for Strategic and International Studies, 2/98); Ian O. Lesser and Ashely J. Tellis, Strategic Exposure: Proliferation around the Mediterranean (Santa Monica: RAND, 1996); Bates Gill, Silkworms and Summitry: Chinese Arms Exports to Iran and US-China Relations (Asia and Pacific Rim Institute of the American Jewish Committee, 1998); "Saudi Arabia," Middle East Military Balance, (Tel Aviv: Jaffee Center for Strategic Studies, 2/5/05), http://www.tau.ac.il/jcss/balance/Saudia.pdf; "Exocet AM.39 / MM.40," Federation of American Scientists website, 1/3/99, http://www.fas.org/man/dod-101/sys/missile/row/exocet.htm; "CSS-C-2-Silkworm/ HY-1 / SY-1 / CSS-N-1 Scrubbrush / FL-1 Flying Dragon," Global Security.org, http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/china/hy-1.htm; "Egypt," Middle East Military Balance, (Tel Aviv: Jaffee Center for Strategic Studies, 2/5/05); "Iran," Middle East Military Balance, (Tel Aviv: Jaffee Center for Strategic Studies, 1/06); IDR Dispatches, "Russian UAV Available for Export," 9/95, p. 3; Charles Bickers, "Russia Renews its UAV Developments," Jane's Defence Weekly, 7/23/94, p. 24; "Syria," Middle East Military Balance, (Tel Aviv: Jaffee Center for Strategic Studies, 3/4/05); "Saudi Arabia," Middle East Military Balance (Tel Aviv: Jaffee Center for Strategic Studies, 2/5/05); "AGM-65 Maverick," Federation of American Scientists webiste, 1/3/99, http://www.fas.org/man/dod-101/sys/smart/agm-65.htm.
2. Missile Systems of the World, AMI Corporate Intelligence Solutions (AMI International, 1999), pp. 214, 218, 228.
3. "Israel," Middle East Military Balance (Tel Aviv: Jaffee Center for Strategic Studies, 3/05). Versions of the U.S.-made Harpoon cruise missile are designed for launch from ships (AGM 84A), submarines (RGM 84A), and aircraft (UGM 84A).
4. Missile Systems of the World, AMI Corporate Intelligence Solutions (AMI International, 1999), pp. 214, 218, 228.