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.
Read All in:

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

No comments:

Related Posts Plugin for WordPress, Blogger...