Careful, Weston.
Q said sparrows red, not red sparrows.
As much as I enjoyed the movie, its injection into the Q posts is wrong.
Launch of target missile to test ballistic shield seen as warning to Syria despite US and Israel playing down exercise as 'routine'
Israel fired a target missile to test a new missile defense system on Tuesday, triggering alerts across a region braced nervously for impending international military strikes against Syria.
Although Israeli officials said the test launch was a routine exercise, it caused jitters in global financial markets amid the military and diplomatic uncertainty since chemical weapons were unleashed on Syrian civilians last month.
Some observers saw the test's timing as a conspicuous display of Israel's military power ahead of an expected escalation of the Syrian crisis in the coming weeks, and possible retaliatory attacks by the Damascus regime against Israel.
The Israeli defense ministry confirmed it had launched a Sparrow target missile at 9.15am local time on Tuesday. It said the test of the Arrow anti-missile system was successful.
Israel said the exercise had been conducted jointly with the US. An American official in Washington said: "Israel routinely fires missiles or drones off its shores to test its own ballistic defence capabilities."
A Pentagon spokesman, George Little, said the missile test was long-planned and unrelated to Syria. : "This test had nothing to do with the United States' consideration of military action to respond to Syria's chemical weapons attack," he said.
Israeli test of anti-missile defence system causes jitters across region