Tel Aviv - Israel plans this summer to put into use a new missile defense system that can shoot down short-range rockets fired from Gaza, officials said Thursday. A year of testing of the "Iron Dome," which took two years to develop, was capped by another round of shoot-down exercises in the southern Israeli Negev desert over the past two days, they said.
The Iron Dome system can shoot down rockets with a range of 3-70 kilometers, including Qassam rockets produced by Hamas, the radical Islamist movement ruling the Gaza Strip.
"Completion of the development of 'Iron Dome' and turning it operational will change the political and security reality in Israel," Pinhas Bukhris, the director-general of Israel's Defense Ministry, said in a statement sent to the German Press Agency...
Source: Earth Times.
Link: http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/302530,israeli-to-deploy-system-to-shoot-down-rockets-fired-from-gaza.html.
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