Three Very Important Israeli Anti-Missile Defenses,
Against Short, Medium, and Long Range Islamic Missiles,
Two of which are now being tested in Israel and in the Pacific,
Will need to have been successfully tested and operationally Placed,
BEFORE Israel Actually Carries Out an Aerial Operation against Nuke Sites!
I Believe ALL THREE Israeli Anti-Missiles Defenses WILL Be In Place BEFORE 2011!
July 16, 2009
http://www.tribulationperiod.com/
THE SHORT RANGE ANTI-MISSILE DEFENSE
Begin Excerpt from Jerusalem Post
Iron Dome
system successful in tests
July 15, 2009
Yaakov Katz , THE JERUSALEM POST
The Iron Dome missile defense system successfully intercepted a number of rockets that mimicked Kassam and short-range Grad-model Katyusha rockets in a series of tests the Defense Ministry conducted this week.
Iron Dome, under development by Rafael Defense Systems, is slated to become operational sometime in 2010 and to be capable of intercepting short-range Kassam and Katyusha rockets fired by Hamas in the Gaza Strip and Hizbullah in southern Lebanon.
The Iron Dome uses an advanced radar that locates and tracks the rocket, which is then intercepted by a kinetic m
issile interceptor.
“A multilevel defense system is a strategic goal for the State of Israel and will provide a layer of protection against short-range rockets,” Defense Minister Ehud Barak said.
“This will allow the IDF to fulfill its obligation to protect Israel in the best way that it can.”
The IDF has already established a new battalion that will be part of the IAF’s Air Defense Division and will operate Iron Dome. Prototypes of the Iron Dome will likely be supplied to the new battalion in the coming months.
The battalion will then commence training with the system as well as formulating a doctrine for its operation.
The IDF has also located positions along the Gaza border that will be used as bases for the system, which includes a launcher and radar installation.
After it completes the deployment of the system along the Gaza border, the IDF will begin deploying the system along the northern border with Lebanon.
MEDIUM AND LONG RANGE ANTI-MISSILE DEFENSES
Begin Excerpt from DEBKAfile Special Report
Pacific test will determine Arrow’s ability to intercept Iranian missiles close to launch
DEBKAfile Special Report
July 15, 2009, 6:21 PM (GMT+02:00)
In a few days, the Israeli anti-missile Arrow system will face the first real test, weather permitting, of its ability to knock out an Iranian Shehab-3 or Sejil II ballistic missile at the outset of its flight toward Israel, DEBKAfile’s military sources report.
The test will take place off central California’s Pacific coast.
Lieut. Gen. Patrick O’Reilly, director of the Pentagon’s Missile Defense Agency, said Tuesday, July 14: “The test will allow Israel to measure its advanced Arrow 3 system against a target with a range of more than 620 miles (1,000 km), too long for previous Arrow test sites in the eastern Mediterranean.”
The test will try and engage a target not only upwards of 1,000 km distant but close to its launch.
Until now, our military sources report, Arrow tests have been restricted by the small area of the Mediterranean Sea, the heavy air and maritime traffic in and above it, and the location of the Israeli missile launch site at Palmahim, from which missile flight westward is limited to a few hundred kilometers and disallowed in any other direction.
None of its 16 test flights has exercised the full potential of the Arrow’s operational range for intercepting the flight path of possible Iranian missile attack on Israel.
For this reason, the Israeli missile command described past tests as 100 percent successful, while the Americans rated their success “90 percent.”
The Pacific test will be launched from a point between Point Mugu and Santa Barbara north-west of Los Angeles.
It will test the Arrow in uninterrupted flight against a target in the middle of the Pacific Ocean.
The closest land to the site is Japan.
According to our military sources, this third Arrow exercise from a US site will also examine US-Israeli cooperation in missile interception in the event of an Iranian response to a possible Israeli strike at Iran’s nuclear facilities or an Iranian pre-emptive missile attack on Israel.
General O’Reilly announced that this would be the first full test of the ability of the American and Israeli intercept systems to work together and “provides us the opportunity to have the Patriot system, the THAAD system and the Aegis system all interacting with the Arrow system so that we’re demonstrating full interoperability as we execute this test.”
The significance of this disclosure is that for the first time, the joint operational capabilities of the Israel-based missile intercept systems and the American
missile-intercept systems stationed in the Middle East and the Persian Gulf will be tested.
The exercise will also examine cooperation between the Israeli anti-aircraft defenses and the American satellites’ early warning devices for missile launches. The Israeli and US arrays are connected through the sophisticated FBX-T radar station positioned at Israel’s Nevatim airbase in the Negev, which is operated by soldiers and technicians belonging to EUCOM, the US European theater command.
DEBKAfile’s military sources report that the exercise will not feature full operation of the American intercept systems, nor will American intercept missiles be launched, except for their sensor assets. In other words, the diverse radar systems will be activated to simulate an American-Israeli response to a missile attack.
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