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Tuesday, September 04, 2012

After year's delay, Arrow 3 to be tested soon


After a delay of almost a year, the directors of the Arrow anti-ballistic missile program in the US and Israel plan to conduct soon the first flight test of the Arrow 3, the latest version of the missile, designed as the response to Iran's Shahab intermediate range ballistic missiles and future threats.

The Arrow 3's most important capabilities are its ability to deal with salvos of incoming missiles, rather than just single missiles, and its ability to intercept missiles outside the earth's atmosphere, reports "Defense News" Israel bureau chief Barbara Opall-Rome.

This will be the first test of all Arrow 3 systems. Subsystems have been tested previously.

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