Thursday, 23 April 2009

Israel Matzav: Israel's biggest scandal: Sitting ducks in Sderot

Israel's biggest scandal: Sitting ducks in Sderot

Over the past three years, I have done more posts than I care to count or remember criticizing the Israeli government for its insistence on developing the Iron Dome short-range missile defense system to protect Israel's border areas against (mostly 'Palestinian' but also Hezbullah) short-range missiles instead of buying an American system. The US actually developed two systems to intercept short-range missiles. One was called Nautilus and later Skyguard; I don't know what its status is today. The other system, called Phalanx (pictured), became operational in 2006.
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Israel Matzav: Israel's biggest scandal: Sitting ducks in Sderot

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