The service purchased two batteries that are currently being readied to be put into operation next year.
But the Army has been trying to figure out how to operate two Iron Dome systems Congress ordered it to purchase in 2019 as a stopgap for delayed efforts by the service to get its own new air and missile defense systems up and running. doesn’t have much in the way of excess air and missile defense batteries ready to be transferred. The Israeli military has said Iron Dome has knocked down about 90 percent of missiles fired into Israel over the past several years.Īs it stands, the U.S.
Since being deployed in Israel in 2011, the system, built by the Israeli defense company Rafael in partnership with Raytheon, has proven itself one of the world’s most effective killers of short-range missiles.
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