NATO forces interested in Iron Dome

[Chris]

NATO forces interested in Iron Dome
By YAAKOV KATZ
10/03/2010 03:31
Defense Ministry in talks with EU states about possible sale of system.

The Defense Ministry is in talks with a number of European countries about the possible sale of the Iron Dome short-range missile defense system which the IDF plans to deploy in the coming months along the border with the Gaza Strip. In January, the Iron Dome underwent a round of tests during which it successfully intercepted barrages of Kassam and Katyusha rockets. The missile barrages that the system succeeded in intercepting included a number of rockets that mimicked Kassam and longer-range Grad-model Katyusha rockets that are known to be in Hamas’s arsenal.

The Iron Dome is supposed to be capable of intercepting all of the short-range rockets fired by Hamas in the Gaza Strip and Hizbullah in Southern Lebanon. The Iron Dome uses an advanced radar – made by Elta – that locates and tracks the rocket, which is then intercepted by a kinetic missile interceptor. Following the round of tests two months ago, a number of European countries that are currently fighting in Afghanistan, sent delegations to Israel to meet with Iron Dome manufacturer Rafael Advanced Defense Systems.

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[Chris]

The world needs all the protection it can get from the looney tunes out there.

[Sean Osborne]

Long before the IDF's Operation Cast Iron, they should have been interested in and actually purchased several of the US-made C-RAM systems. Few, if any, of HAMAS rockets and mortars would have hit Sderot and other surrounding communites and Cast Iron might not have occurred. That's a fact proven in Iraq.

[Chris]

Long before the IDF's Operation Cast Iron, they should have been interested in and actually purchased several of the US-made C-RAM systems. Few, if any, of HAMAS rockets and mortars would have hit Sderot and other surrounding communites and Cast Iron might not have occurred. That's a fact proven in Iraq.

Sean,
What is a C-RAM system? I've heard of the Patriot missiles, etc. but never heard of the C-RAMs.

[Robert]

Long before the IDF's Operation Cast Iron, they should have been interested in and actually purchased several of the US-made C-RAM systems. Few, if any, of HAMAS rockets and mortars would have hit Sderot and other surrounding communites and Cast Iron might not have occurred. That's a fact proven in Iraq.

or made their own earlier.