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Wednesday, January 20, 2010

7 Iron Dome batteries in next 2 years


The Defense Ministry is working on allocating the funding to manufacture seven Iron Dome missile defense batteries over the next two years, defense officials said Monday.

Two weeks ago the Iron Dome underwent a successful round of tests that concluded the development stage of the system, which is said to be capable of intercepting barrages of Kassam and Katyusha rockets.

The Iron Dome uses an advanced radar, manufactured by Israel Aerospace Industries Elta, that locates and tracks incoming rockets, which are then intercepted by a kinetic missile interceptor.

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