Saturday, August 25, 2012

US wants details on Israel's 'Iron Dome' anti-missile system

The U.S. military has furnished millions of dollars to Israel to build and deploy an anti-missile artillery system known as Iron Dome, but oddly enough the United States knows little about how the system works even though it is in desperate need of just such a system to defend forward deployed troops on military bases or outposts exposed to rocket attack, reports Wired's Danger Room blog.
Israel developed Iron Dome, which the country says has an 80 percent success rate, completely on its own, the story said. For whatever reason, the United States doesn't know the specifics of Iron Dome, as it does with U.S.-Israeli anti-missile partnerships.


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