PREPARING FOR PERIOD 2010 TO 2015!
WISE TO DO FOR THE SWEET BY AND BY,
IF IRANIAN MISSILES FLY WEST IN THE SKY!
A POSSIBILITY ISRAEL WILL DARE NOT DENY,
EVEN IF SUCH A THING MAY ONLY BE IMPLIED!
April 19, 2008
http://www.tribulationperiod.com/
The two articles which follow are definitely direct indicators that Israel, along with the rest of the Middle East, is strenuously testing and adding to her missile detection and destruction systems, while she, and all the other nations, are preparing for an eventual major Middle East war.
Begin DEBKAfile Excerpt
Exclusive: Amid new Iranian threat, Israel connects to America’s Ballistic Missile Early Warning System
April 15, 2008, 12:36 PM (GMT+02:00)
Israel requested the hook-up to the BMEWS for early warning to defend itself against Iranian missile attack. Tuesday, April 15, Iran’s deputy C-in-C Mohammad Reza Ashtiani threatened to eliminate Israel from “the scene of the universe” if it launches a military attack on the Islamic state.
DEBKAfile’s military sources report the system operates from three global centers – the US Thule Air Base in Greenland, where the 12th Space Warning Squadron is located; the Clear Air Force Station in Alaska and the British RAF long-range radar station at Fylingdales, Yorkshire, in Engl
and.
This is the third time Israel has been connected to the BMEWS.
The first was in 1991 before the first Gulf War and the second in 2003 before the US invasion of Iraq.
Then, Israel feared Iraqi missile attack, which indeed materialized in 1991.
Now, US military sources interpret the request as signifying Israel’s sense of the need to prepare for an Iranian missile attack in the not-too-distant future.
Such an attack could develop from a US or Israeli strike against Iran, or any war situation involving Israel, Syria or Hizballah. Tehran might also stage a pre-emptive strike if early intelligence was received of an impending US or Israeli attack on Iran, Syria or Hizballah.
These sources stressed that Iran could even decide to lash out against Israel after the event in reprisal for an American assault, not necessarily on its nuclear sites but on Revolutionary Guards bases involved in directing, arming and training militias for attacks on US troops in Iraq. In such a contingency, Tehran could decide to hit back at US bases and strategic sites in the Persian Gulf and Middle East at large, including Israel.
The hook-up to the US early warning system will give Israel a better chance to prepare its Arrow and Patriot missile defense systems – and the US to prepare its own Israel-based Patriot batteries – in good time to ward off an Iranian missile attack.
The BMEWS would start beaming data on an incoming Iranian m issile at the launching stage and before it
is airborne.
American military sources have no doubt that if an Iranian missile barrage targets Tel Aviv, Israel will counter with a missile attack on Tehran or Damascus.
Begin April 15 Jerusalem Post Article about successful test
Israel successfully tests Arrow’s radar
Yaakov Katz, THE JERUSALEM POST
April 15, 2008
Israel successfully tested the Green Pine Radar – an integral part of the Arrow missile defense system – on Tuesday as it tracked a missile made by Rafael, Blue Sparrow, which mimics an upgraded version of Iran’s Shihab 3 ballistic missile.
When the test was announced, defense officials said that the Blue Sparrow would be fired by an IAF fighter jet off Israel’s coast. The missile mimics a Shihab 3 carrying a split warhead and with advanced radar evading capabilities.
The Green Pine Radar located and identified the incoming missile and the Citron Tree battle management center related the information to the Arrow battery.
A missile was not fired in the exercise.
About four weeks ago, the defense establishment decided to press forward with the development and production of Arrow 3, a more advanced version in terms of speed, range and altitude – of the current Arrow 2 version in IDF operation.
Israel last tested its Arrow missile in February 2007.
Defense officials said that the simulation was part of the Arrow’s annual test program and was not connected to intelligence concerning an imminent conflict with any of Israel’s neighbors. Later in the year, the IAF plans to hold another drill, during which it will test-fire an Arrow missile to try and intercept an incoming
missile.
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