Al-Abqari satallite incident
| Al-Abqari satallite incident | |||||||
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| Part of Pavulturilori-Sconian 90s conflict | |||||||
 A Pavulturilori Săgeată 2 missile launcher | |||||||
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| Belligerents | |||||||
 Pavulturilor |
 Sconia | ||||||
| Units involved | |||||||
 Pavulturilori Air Force | Sconian Space Program | ||||||
| Casualties and losses | |||||||
| None | 1 Satallite | ||||||
The Al-Abqari satallite incident also known as Operation Zdrobitor de stele (Pavulturilori: Star Smasher) was the interception of the Sconian Al-Abqari satallite by the Royal Pavulturilori Air Force on 5 April 1996. Ths incident would be the first recorded instance of space combat and first operational use of an ASAT.
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Background
On 4 April 1996, the Islamic Republic of Sconia launched the Al-Abqari satallite to space from tbd launchsite, while claiming the satallite to be a Weather satallite, the Kingdom of Pavulturilor claimed that it was an Armed satallite in direct violation of Outer Space agreement, and that if the satallite was to pass over Pavulturilor, they will have every right to shoot it down.
The incident
The following day on 00:00 WPT 5 April 1996, the satalitte was detected by Pavulturilori radars, 10 minutes later on 00:10 WPT the Royal Pavulturilori Air Force launched a single FA-12 "Arbaletă" armed with a special variant of the DM-80 Brutalizator to intercept the satalitte, it would score a hit on the satalitte in 00:24 WPT, damaging it, however failing to kill the target.
Minutes later on 00:30 WPT the Stratigic Defence Command launched a Săgeată 2 missile to intercept the satallite, the Săgeată missile would successfully intercept the satallite 10 minutes later in 00:40 WPT and destroy it.
Aftermath
International Reaction
TCN resolution tbd
The Islamic Republic of Sconia would go on to try condemn the Kingdom of Pavulturilor with TCN resulution tbd, it would ultimatly fail to do so with the results being TBD for, TBD abstain, and TBD against, failing to pass.
