First Arrow-2 Interceptor Delivered
November 7, 2005 :: Jane's Information Group :: News
Boeing delivered the first “Arrow 2” interceptor to the Israel Air Force on October 31, reports Jane’s Defense Weekly. The companies involved would not disclose the exact number of Arrow missiles scheduled for manufacture, but an Israel defense source is quoted as saying that there are weekly deliveries of “several missile components” from Boeing, and that Israel has two operational Arrow batteries, which each reportedly need 100 missiles. (Article, Link)
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Israel to Receive First U.S.-Produced Arrow Interceptors
June 15, 2005 :: Bloomberg :: News
The Israeli Air Force will receive the first Arrow missile interceptors made with U.S. parts this month, reports Bloomberg. Since 2000, Israel Aircraft Industries has worked with Boeing to co-produce missile canisters, motor housings, electronics, and radar caps. Arieh Herzog, director of the Israel Missile Defense Organization, stated that the collaboration will allow Israel to double its original rate of production. The U.S. has helped fund the Arrow program since the late 1980s in order to protect Israel from missile attack. (Link)
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Hezbollah: All of Northern Israel in Rocket Range
May 25, 2005 :: Ha'aretz :: News
Ha’aretz reports that the militant Islamic terrorist organization Hezbollah has 12,000 Katyusha rockets deployed in Lebanon capable of striking all of northern Israel. On May 24, Hezbollah leader Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah stated unequivocally: “Any hand that reaches out to our weapons is an Israeli hand that will be cut off.”
For reasons like these, the U.S. and Israel have been collaborating on such defensive systems as the Tactical High Energy Laser (THEL), designed to track and destroy incoming rockets with a high-energy laser beam. Some recent reports have suggested, however, that the U.S. may be withdrawing funding from THEL (Article, Link)
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Glick: U.S. Could Suspend Arrow and THEL Collaboration with Israel
May 18, 2005 :: News
Caroline Glick writes in The Jerusalem Post that the U.S. has reportedly suspended its cooperation with Israel on the Arrow and Tactical High Energy Laser (THEL) missile defense projects. Ms. Glick references an official source quoted by Middle East Newsline as saying of the pullback from military cooperation, “It’s all about China.”
Israel is the largest exporter of high-tech weapons to China. The Pentagon fears that China could, among other things, use its Israeli weapons against U.S. forces in a future Taiwan conflict. Glick notes that Israel should stop arming the Chinese or risk damaging its strategic relationship with the U.S. She also notes that by arming China, Israel is actually helping its regional enemies. China of course also exports weapons to Iran and Pakistan. (Article, Link)
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Syria Wants Russian S-400
February 9, 2005 :: News
Syria is negotiating the purchase of the Russian S-400 air and missile defense system, said to be comparable or superior to U.S. Patriot PAC-3 interceptors. Middle East Newsline quotes “Russian industry sources” as saying that Syrian President Bashar Assad sought to acquire the system during his recent visit to Moscow. “Assad is very interested in the S-400 and apparently Syria has the money to buy this,” an industry source is quoted as saying.
Recent news reports have confirmed that Russia will be deploying the S-400 for its own defenses in 2005. (Article, Link)
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Israeli Official Calls for Space-Based Defenses
January 12, 2005 :: Defense News :: News
Yuval Steinitz, chairman of the Israel’s Defense and Foreign Affairs Committee, recently called for his nation to expand its sea and space-based defenses against a number of forms of attack, reports Defense News. At a December 22 symposium, he urged in particular anti-satellite missiles, satellite-attacking lasers, and ship-based missiles. Israel’s “lack of ground territory—and our obligation to defend the homeland from attack—drives the need to develop a strategic envelope of air, sea and space forces not only for defense, but for attack.”
Steinitz’s proposals will not be well received by those arms controllers theologically opposed to the weaponization of space, but are in fact quite well founded. The importance of space in warfare has already been seen in the use of GPS and other satellite assets. In a war with another space-capable power, such as China, anti-satellite weapons would, it is plausible, be widely used on both sides. The defense of our assets in space is a simple necessity, and the basing of missile defense interceptors in space is simply essential to any effective strategic missile defense. (Article, Link)
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Israel Deploying Patriot Interceptors in Haifa
December 6, 2004 :: Ha'aretz :: News
Israel yesterday deployed a Patriot air and missile defense battery was near Haifa Bay, weeks after Hezbollah had penetrated that airspace in northern Israel with an Iranian-built unmanned drone. (Article, Link)
» Nov. 12: Debka: Patriot apparently removed before overflight, yet could have destroyed Iranian drone
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Northrop Offers High Energy Laser to Army
November 1, 2004 :: Jane's Information Group :: News
Northrop Grumman has offered the US Army a directed-energy laser weapon which could be ready within 18 months, reports Jane’s.
The weapon is termed the High Energy Laser for Rocket, Artillery and Mortar (HELRAM) defense system, which has been derived from its work on the U.S.-Israel joint work on the Tactical High Energy Laser (THEL)—and perhaps also its work on the Airborne Laser (ABL). (Article, Link)
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India and Israel to Cooperate on Long Range Missiles
August 31, 2004 :: Spacewar.com :: News
India and Israel could cooperate to jointly produce a long range ballistic missile, according to an India’s chief military scientist Dr. V.K. Atre. “Wherever they have strengths, we want to jointly develop the missiles so that both countries can benefit and share designs, costs and risks,” Atre said at a news conference in Hyderabad. Discussions for the joint project are said to have begun in 2003.
India has already begun to acquire two Phalcon systems, which are used for early warning and detection of ballistic missile launches, such as those by Pakistan and China.
Another news report two days ago also quoted Atre as saying that India may begin work on missile defense systems, in which Israel also has much experience. (Article, Link)
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» Mar. 18: India buys Phalcon, Considers Israeli Arrow, U.S. Patriot, Russian S-300
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Israeli Arrow Test Fails
August 26, 2004 :: BBC :: News
Although a test of the Arrow-2 interceptor on July 29 resulted in the successful destruction of an actual Scud-B missile, another attempt today showed the Arrow unable to destroy a target made to simulate the more sophisticated Iranian Shahab-3.
Chris Taylor, spokesman for the U.S. Missile Defense Agency which is jointly developing the Arrow with Israel, commented that “The engineers don’t yet know what happened.”
The test, the 13th Arrow intercept test and the eighth test of the complete weapon system, was against an air-launched target, dropped from a C-17 aircraft, made to simulate a missile similar to a threat Israel could face.
The target was dropped 360 miles west-northwest of San Nicolas Island, after which its booster ignited. The arrow Green Pine radar picked up the target, and the Arrow interceptor was launched from San Nicolas.
According to Israeli news sources, the test involved a missile with dual warheads, one actual and one “dummy,” and although the Arrow accurately discerned the actual warhead it failed to intercept it. (More »»»)
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