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Israel and US successfully test anti-missile system

Israel Materials 22 February 2011 14:25 (UTC +04:00)
Israel and the United States successfully carried out a test of Israel's Arrow anti-missile system off the coast of California on Tuesday morning
Israel and US successfully test anti-missile system

Israel and the United States successfully carried out a test of Israel's Arrow anti-missile system off the coast of California on Tuesday morning, the newspaper Haaretz reported.

Israeli Defense Ministry says the Arrow detected, intercepted and destroyed a target missile launched from an offshore platform late Monday inside a U.S. Navy firing range.

The test was held in order to see if the missile would be successful against Iran's advanced missile, the Shahab 3, which could be used to hit Israel and regional U.S. bases.

Jointly developed by Israel and the U.S., the Arrow detects an incoming missile and destroys it with a second missile. It is primarily aimed at defending Israel from the threat of an Iranian missile strike.

Tuesday's statement said the test provides confidence in operational Israeli capabilities to defeat the developing ballistic missile threat.

It was the latest in a series of successful tests of the system.

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