Israel:
On Ground Updates
Tests of the Iron Dome anti-missile defense system were completed and its first two batteries will be ready for deployment by November
Wednesday, July 21, 2010
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* IDF had the following report posted up on their website July 20th and it goes in part like this... Last week, the Ministry of Defense’s Administration for the Development of Weapons and Technological Infrastructure (ADWTI), Israeli Air Force’s anti-aircraft forces and Rafael Advanced Defense Systems Ltd. which developed the Iron Dome, held a final comprehensive series of fully operational interception tests in coordination with other systems already used by the IAF and its anti-aircraft battalion. Within the frameworks of the tests which were held in a southern test field, the Iron Dome system had to confront for the first time ever a large number of simultaneous threats. The new defense system successfully intercepted every single missile...
Read this report in full at link below...
Iron Dome Passes Final Tests
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* HAARETZ.com has this take on the news and it starts off like this... The U.S. Congress passed Obama initiative to provide Israel with a $205 million grant to procure Iron Dome batteries, but defense experts say more funding is needed... A day after the last test trials for the Iron Dome rocket intercept system, the defense establishment reactions are mixed. Great satisfaction at the tremendous progress made by the engineers of Rafael is tempered by economic concerns...
Read the rest at link below...
Iron Dome success excites, but army balks at the bill
> Also on topic from HAARETZ.com...
From television to reality
and...
Iron Dome missile defense system aces final test run
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Israel to unveil anti-rocket system
About this News Video: An Israeli system that can shoot down incoming rockets has passed its last tests and will be ready for deployment in a few months. Originally posted July 21st
This video posted on YouTube by itnnews
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Good news... good news... even with the cost. May the cost come down fast though... and may many lives be saved...
AubreyJ.........
On Ground Updates
Tests of the Iron Dome anti-missile defense system were completed and its first two batteries will be ready for deployment by November
Wednesday, July 21, 2010
.
* IDF had the following report posted up on their website July 20th and it goes in part like this... Last week, the Ministry of Defense’s Administration for the Development of Weapons and Technological Infrastructure (ADWTI), Israeli Air Force’s anti-aircraft forces and Rafael Advanced Defense Systems Ltd. which developed the Iron Dome, held a final comprehensive series of fully operational interception tests in coordination with other systems already used by the IAF and its anti-aircraft battalion. Within the frameworks of the tests which were held in a southern test field, the Iron Dome system had to confront for the first time ever a large number of simultaneous threats. The new defense system successfully intercepted every single missile...
Read this report in full at link below...
Iron Dome Passes Final Tests
.
* HAARETZ.com has this take on the news and it starts off like this... The U.S. Congress passed Obama initiative to provide Israel with a $205 million grant to procure Iron Dome batteries, but defense experts say more funding is needed... A day after the last test trials for the Iron Dome rocket intercept system, the defense establishment reactions are mixed. Great satisfaction at the tremendous progress made by the engineers of Rafael is tempered by economic concerns...
Read the rest at link below...
Iron Dome success excites, but army balks at the bill
> Also on topic from HAARETZ.com...
From television to reality
and...
Iron Dome missile defense system aces final test run
.
........................
.
Israel to unveil anti-rocket system
About this News Video: An Israeli system that can shoot down incoming rockets has passed its last tests and will be ready for deployment in a few months. Originally posted July 21st
This video posted on YouTube by itnnews
.
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Good news... good news... even with the cost. May the cost come down fast though... and may many lives be saved...
AubreyJ.........
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