Ha'aretz (Israel) : "Israel missile defense system fails to launch in U.S. test" par Anshell Pfeiffer

Israel missile defense system fails to launch in U.S. test  

By Anshel Pfeffer, Haaretz Correspondent, and News Agencies  

Israel's Arrow II missile defense system was tested at a U.S. range off the California coast early Thursday morning but problems prevented the launch of the system's interceptor, the Pentagon said.

Partly underwritten by Washington, Arrow is designed to defend Israel from missile attacks from Syria and Iran, which Western nations suspect of seeking nuclear arms despite its denials.

In a test involving three U.S. missile interceptors, Arrow tracked a target missile dropped from a C-17 aircraft, the Pentagon said in a statement.
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The Israeli system also exchanged data on the target in real-time with elements of the U.S. missile defense system, the statement said.

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