The US Army wants to buy Israel’s Iron Dome (Iron Dome) mobile missile defense system. The system should be tried „to protect members of the US Army in action against a variety of indirect gunshot threats and threats from the air,“ it said today in a statement of the US Army. It is about a limited number of the defense system to meet the „short-term needs“.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who is also Israel’s defense minister, described the purchase as a great success for his country. The defense system is to protect against an attack with short-range missiles. Development, construction and maintenance of the system had been supported by the United States with hundreds of millions of euros in the past.
The mobile system has been in use since the spring of 2011 in Israel. It can be moved within a few hours. A rocket costs about 50,000 US dollars (just under 37,000 euros) according to earlier data.
