Israeli Air Force SPICE 1000/Mk 83 guided bombs were documented on F-15C/D aircraft during Israel's September 2024 long-range strikes against Houthi targets in Yemen.
| Claim | Sources |
|---|---|
| Israeli Air Force F-15C/D aircraft were part of the September 2024 Yemen strike package. | |
| A photographed Israeli F-15D associated with the Yemen mission carried SPICE 1000. | |
| The strike targeted Houthi-linked infrastructure around Hodeidah and Ras Isa. | Sources: Axios September 2024 Hodeidah Strike Reporting, Al Jazeera September 2024 Yemen Air Raids |
| SPICE 1000 is a Rafael guidance-kit configuration for 1,000-pound Mk 83-series bombs. | Sources: Rafael SPICE 1000 Brochure |
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Israeli aircraft struck Houthi-linked targets around Ras Isa and Hodeidah, including power and seaport facilities according to contemporary reporting.
Sources: Axios September 2024 Hodeidah Strike Reporting, Al Jazeera September 2024 Yemen Air Raids
The War Zone reviewed IDF-released footage from the mission and identified an Israeli F-15D carrying SPICE 1000 during the Yemen strike package.
The SPICE 1000/Mk 83 guided-bomb configuration is documented in the Yemen conflict through Israeli Air Force imagery reviewed by The War Zone after Israel's September 29, 2024 long-range strike mission against Houthi targets. The report identified an Israeli F-15D shown in IDF-released footage as carrying SPICE 1000, AIM-7 Sparrow, AIM-120 AMRAAM, and an Elta 8222 electronic-warfare pod.
This evidence supports fielding by the Israeli Air Force in the Yemen theater. The open reporting reviewed here does not assign a specific SPICE 1000 round to an individual impact point or target inside Yemen.
On September 29, 2024, Israel said dozens of aircraft struck Houthi military targets in Yemen, including power plants and seaport facilities around Ras Isa and Hodeidah. Axios reported that Israeli officials described the strike as retaliation for recent Houthi ballistic-missile attacks against Israel, while Al Jazeera reported casualties and power outages in Hodeidah from the same raid.
The following day, The War Zone analyzed IDF imagery from the mission and identified SPICE 1000 on an Israeli F-15D linked to the Yemen strike package.
Sources: Axios September 2024 Hodeidah Strike Reporting, Al Jazeera September 2024 Yemen Air Raids, TWZ September 2024 Yemen Raid SPICE 1000 Reporting
Israel's September 2024 Yemen raid took place during the Red Sea escalation phase of the wider Yemen war, after Houthi forces had fired long-range weapons toward Israel and attacked maritime traffic. The strike package included fighter aircraft, refueling aircraft, and intelligence or support assets operating at long range from Israel.
Within that strike package, the SPICE 1000/Mk 83 configuration appears as an air-delivered stand-off precision weapon carried by Israeli F-15C/D aircraft. Rafael describes SPICE 1000 as a bolt-on guidance kit for 1,000-pound Mk 83-series bombs, using deployable wings and electro-optical scene-matching guidance for stand-off attack.
The documented Yemen role is therefore best described as Israeli long-range precision strike support against Houthi targets, based on carriage and mission imagery rather than publicly released target-by-target munition accounting.
Sources: TWZ September 2024 Yemen Raid SPICE 1000 Reporting, Rafael SPICE 1000 Brochure, Axios September 2024 Hodeidah Strike Reporting
