NTI: Country Overviews: Syria: Missile Import/Export

Syria Missile Import/Export

Imports

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Syria Missile Exports

1975-76	North Korea	24-56 FROG-7B (9M21E Luna-M) artillery rockets	Materials are sent from Egypt but Syria is said to have had a part in the transfer.
7-9 February 1976	Eritrea	Soviet-made rockets and anti-aircraft missiles	Syria provides weapons to Eritrean guerrillas.
23 June 1975	Jordan	anti-aircraft missiles
26 November 1976	Lebanon	SAM-6 anti-aircraft missiles and guns
August-September 1976	Lebanon	anti-aircraft equipment
12 March 1979	Lebanon	Soviet-made SAMs
10 October 1980	Iran	arms and ammunition including SAM-7 heat-seeking anti-aircraft missiles
13 October 1980	Iran	Soviet-made weaponry including Strela missiles
10 December 1980	Iran	arms shipments including SAM-6 and SAM-7 missiles
29 April 1981	Lebanon	SA-2 and SA-6 missiles
late-April	Lebanon	SA-6 and SA-9 missiles
11 May 1981	Lebanon	five SAM batteries
6 April 1982	Lebanon	SAM missiles
June 1982	Lebanon	SAM-6 batteries
12 September 1982	Lebanon	SAM-9 missile launchers
14 October 1982	Lebanon	SAM-8 battery
26 October 1982	Lebanon	SAM-8 batteries
May 1988	Iran	SS-21 missiles
1994	North Korea	information on missile technologies and UAVs; access to the 9K79 Tochka (SS-21 Scarab) SRBM, P-35 Redut (SSC-1b Sepal) cruise missile, P-20 Rubezh-A (SS-C-3 Styx) anti-ship missile, solid-fuel motor techology and the DR-3 Reys UAV
August 1996	North Korea	SS-21 Scarab missiles


	Updated March 2006

Key Sources:
New York Times; Wisconsin Project; Kenneth Timmerman: Weapons of Mass Destruction; Associated Press; Critical Mass: The Dangerous Race for Superweapons in a Fragmenting World; BB; Associated Press; New York Times; Washington Post; The Guardian (London); Courier-Mail; The Jerusalem Post; Washington Times; US News & World Report; Wall Street Journal; Joongang Ilbo; Center for Nonproliferation Studies; Middle East Defence News; Center for Strategic and International Studies; South China Morning Post (Hong Kong); Anthony Cordesman: Peace & War: The Arab-Israeli Military Balance Enters the 21st Century; The Times (London); Al Arab al-Alamiyah; Middle East Newsline; Mibont; Jo Konggy Kan.ng; Donga Ilbo; Al-Hayah; St. Petersburg Time.

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	Maps
	WMD in the Middle East
	China's Missile Exports and Assistance to Syria
	Treaties and Organizations
	GlobalSecurity: Nuclear Weapons Programs
	Syria's Secret Nuclear Program and Long Term Threat
	Syria and WMD: incentives and capabilities. (2004)
	The Nuclear Capabilities and Ambitions of Iran’s Neighbors (2005)
	Unclassified Report to Congress on the Acquisition of Technology Relating to Weapons of Mass Destruction and Advanced Conventional Munitions (2003)
	Syria’s Chemical Weapons (1997)
	Syria's Chemical and Biological Weapons: Assessing Capabilities and Motivations (1997)

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