US and Israel to Conduct Joint Military Exercises

Ass’t US Secretary of State Andrew Shapiro said US and Israeli forces will simulate Israel’s ballistic missile defense system.

Israel Readies New Missile Defense Tech

Israel’s military is readying a new air-defense system that could be used to counter an Iranian missile strike.

Raytheon To Market Israeli Defense System in US

Raytheon will market the Rafael Iron Dome mobile air defense system in the U.S., the companies announced. Raytheon and Haifa, Israel-based Rafael Advanced Defense Systems also are teaming to offer ballistic missile defense and target missile systems.

Iron Dome heads north

One anti-missile system battery deployed in Haifa as part of testing process. Batteries slated to be installed in various other locations including in Central Israel

The Iron Dome anti-missile has reached the Haifa region as part of its operational testing process.

Its deployment in Haifa is meant to test the battery’s various systems and the connection between the radar and interception devices.

IDF Plan Targets New Threats

With much of the Middle East in turmoil, new realities are emerging for Israel and her neighbors, reshaping the strategic environment that has remained nearly constant for more than 30 years, since the 1979 peace accord with Egypt.

Deterrent and defense against a nuclear Iran

Iran is now probably within a year of becoming a nuclear weapons state. When that happens, Israel’s preemption option will be gone. Ideally, however, the Jewish State’s remaining strategic choices will then still include optimal and interrelated forms of nuclear deterrence and active defense.

Israel setting up missile defense center

Israel’s Ministry of Defense is working to integrate all four of the anti-missile defense systems developed in the country into a national command and control center for the interception of enemy missiles. Senior US officials say that this initiative will not only benefit Israel but also US forces stationed in the Middle East and “US allies that do not have diplomatic relations with Israel,” US weekly “Defense News” reports.

U.S.: Israeli missile defense system can protect our Mideast bases

Arrow type missile being launched in an IDF test site, 2006.

The Israeli missile defense system will be integrated into a regional defense array planned by the U.S., General Patrick O’reilly, head of the Pentagon’s Missile Defense Agency, said Monday.

In an interview published in the American Defense News journal. According to the interview, the Israeli missile batteries may also protect Arab countries who are allies of the U.S. but with which Israel has no diplomatic ties.

Home Front Command to simulate missile attacks in drill

The IDF will begin a nationwide civil defense exercise next week that will include the largest-ever simulation of missile interceptions held by the air force.The air force simulation will involve all of its missile defense systems – Arrow, Iron Dome and David’s Sling. The scenario will include hundreds of “missiles” fired into Israel from several fronts. The Home Front Command will receive a detailed analysis of the number of “missiles” that the IAF succeeds in “intercepting” and those it does not.

Iron Dome Deployed Near Sderot, Israel

 

Israel deployed an Iron Dome rocket interceptor system outside Sderot on Thursday, Reuters reports.