Re: heres the israeli arms industry boasting about their arrow anti-missile system
- From: parris_k@xxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2009 10:09:08 -0800 (PST)
On 22 Jan, 18:49, FriarTuck <n...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Thu, 22 Jan 2009 09:29:51 -0800, parris_k wrote:
On 22 Jan, 17:21, FriarTuck <n...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
from 3 years ago....
includes an update Jan09 that says they could shoot down the qassams
if they wanted...
have the israelis any excuse for not shooting down the qassams aimed at
their own people?
Obviously the fact that the system is still under test and hasn't been
deployed yet has escaped you. But then, so much does...
the text of the article seems to have escaped you... which is perhaps why
you chose to delete it....
it has been deployed... no mention of still being in test.
Other than in the URL. And in the headline of the article:
"Israel Successfully Tests Arrow Theater Missile Defense"...
I see the part you quoted was an update though. I did indeed miss
that.
Jan 4/09: Israel’s Arutz Sheva news service reports that the Arrow
missile defense system has been deployed near Ashkelon,
My bad and apologies - a unit has been deployed. Note the text only
says the RADAR is capable of handling qassams - interestingly, part of
its functionality is to calculate the launch SITE as well as the
flightpath and target. Given the timing of teh deployment - i.e. after
the commencement of the recent unpleasantness (and thus wasn't an
alternative for defence before them), my first reaction is that it is
a unit being rushed into test, as much to satisfy the electorate that
something done as anything else. They can't go after Hamas with them
either.
in part because
IAI has worked with American firms and developed an updated radar system
named MC4. The new radar can also deal with smaller missiles, such as the
Hamas government’s Kassam or Grad rockets being launched from Gaza. Using
GPS and camera sensors, the MC4 system tracks the flight path, and within
a minute of launch, it can determine both the launch site and projected
landing site of the missile.
http://www.defenseindustrydaily.com/israel-successfully-tests-arrow-t...
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