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 Arrow anti-ballistic

The Arrow Interceptor ( Hebrew: "Hetz") is a theater missile defense (TMD) system; it is the first missile that was specifically designed and built to intercept and destroy ballistic missiles on a national level. It is the only anti-ballistic missile system able to intercept its targets so high in the stratosphere.



The Arrow ABM system was designed and constructed in Israel with financial support by the United States in a multi-billion dollar development program (said to be $2,000,000,000 USD to date). The

Israeli Ministry of Defence
runs the Arrow development project under the name "Min'elet Homa", which binds together Israel's different security industries (such as IMI, Tadiran, IAI etc).

Arrow missile

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It's the United States that gives us the most advanced aircraft, precision weapons, funding for the Arrow missile, engines for the Merkava tank and money for developing the Iron Dome missile interceptor. Every year the United States provides us with $5.3 billion in advanced weapons systems, as well as ...
... of the Iron Dome and David's Sling missile defense systems, produced by Rafael Advanced Defense Systems Ltd., and the Arrow 3 missile defense program, produced by Israel Aerospace Industries Ltd. (IAI) (TASE: ARSP.B1). $375 million will be allocated to continued development of the Arrow missile, ...

But detractors rarely note that Israelis sleep under the proven protection of the Iron Dome, and the steadily developing David's Sling and Arrow missile defense systems funded, developed and tested in cooperative ventures with the United States. U.S. and Israeli intelligence communities track rocket and ...
For the second time in a month, a test of the Arrow 3 defense missile system has been canceled. The test, which had been set for Wednesday, has yet to be rescheduled. According to the Defense Ministry, the problem this time was in the transfer of data in its communications with ground control. According ...
A test of the Arrow 3 defense missile system set for Monday morning has been canceled. According to the Defense Ministry, the test was halted at an early stage when it became clear that the target was “not secured.” The Arrow missile is designed to operate at high atmospheric levels, hitting incoming ...

An Israeli Arrow anti-ballistic missile leaves a smoke trail in the evening sky as it flies toward a target after launching from the Palmachim Air Force ... This graphic depiction shows Israeli Arrow anti-ballistic missiles flying toward their targets, detailing the first-ever successful multiple-launch test from the ...
... missile defense, according to Karako. "Layered defense is something that allows the Israelis to have increased shots at an incoming threat. It also allows them to use more cost-effective interceptors for threats from different ranges." Iron Dome costs about $25,000 per projectile, while the Arrow missile can ...

Last week's report that Israel's Arrow missile-defense system shot down a Syrian missile was remarkable on two levels. It was the first time that the Arrow had shot down a missile in combat. And, the target the Arrow destroyed wasn't a ballistic missile like a Scud—it was a Russian-made surface-to-air ...
... picked up the ballistic track of the telephone pole sized SA-5 and categorized the threat as a short-range ballistic missile and engaged it as such. This may be the first time a surface-to-air missile was shot down by another ground-based air defense system. The launch of the Arrow missile activated Israel's ...
Israel has been a world pioneer in developing and deploying missile defense systems, but its programs have suffered two setbacks in recent months. And after months of vague statements, Israel has finally acknowledged that its Arrow-2 antiballistic missile system failed a September 2014 intercept test.
We have four-tier protection: the Iron Dome, David's Sling, and Arrow missile-defense systems as well as other means for protecting specific fixed targets [aimpoints]. Our enemies understand that. Hezbollah still cannot destroy fixed targets, and I don't see them developing this ability in the near future; they ...


 

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