FAILED TEST SIMULATING CARRIER ROCKET AGAINST IRANIAN Shihab
TEL AVIV, 27 August - has taken a step backwards' s
ambitious Israeli-American Arrow''''
designed to ensure the Jewish state a defense against missiles
ground-to-earth unique in its kind in the world.
The project has taken the first steps in the eighties, when President Ronald Reagan
present 'his plan for''Star Wars''
, and' become of national importance in 1991 when Saddam Hussein's Iraq
launch 'dozens of Scud-C missiles on Tel Aviv and Haifa
, and it' was translated into capacity 'real world operating
already' in 2000 when the first battery '' Arrow''(''''Hetz, ie
'arrow, in Hebrew) and' was deployed in Israel.
In July, Israel had welcomed the 'outcome of a test
occurred 100 km south of Los Angeles, where a two-
''Arrow''was able to destroy a rocket type of Scud-C.
But last night a new, highly anticipated, tests in California,
even more 'ambitious, and' failed. L '''''Arrow-2 rocket was to neutralize
more' sophisticated,''
that simulated the Iranian Shihab-3''and''the Syrian Scud-D''. The Israeli-American missile
identified the head, but did not know
intercepted, 'and then crashed into the Pacific Ocean. In a radio interview Aryeh Herzog, a controller
project, and 'that convinced, however, knows that the missile intercept
''Shihab-3.'' Yesterday our missile''
identified the head. The failure to intercept and 'due to a technical fault which will
' solved,''he assured.
The Israeli Ministry of Defense issued a statement reassuring
character. Apparently''''Pino Verde,
the Arrow's radar system, has identified the 'objective and Cedar
''gold''(control system) has prepared an adequate defense plan
and according to which 'body was to the sky' s
'Arrow': that is, the arrow on which depends the security of Israeli
backline. The technical failure, according to radio
Jerusalem, and 'took place when the' Arrow '
would unleash a few meters from its target, the thousands of
steel balls that would have blown up in flight. According to radio Jerusalem, the failure of this test would be
attributable to a relatively simple system that
and 'instead of a rare complication . The system, integrated with
the batteries 'Patriot', in fractions of a second
should consider the looming threat of missiles on Israel different warheads,
trajectories and different goals, choose from more than missiles' potential threat and pulverized in high altitudes. The strategic importance of the project 'Arrow' comes from the belief that Israel
- highlighted recently by the Minister of Defence Shaul Mofaz
- that by 2006 Iran will '
able to acquire nuclear weapons. At the same time, it appears in
Israel, Iran is strengthening its missiles' Shihab-3 '
(Comet) who already' today have a range of 1300 km
that allows them to hit Israeli territory.
improved versions ('Shihab-4' and 'Shihab-5') should have a range
more than 2000 km. In an interview with The Jerusalem Post
the committee chairman Yuval Steinitz Defence
noted that the apprehension of the country
derived from the assessment that Iran''and 'ruled by a totalitarian regime
, irresponsible and unpredictable ready
to sacrifice millions of its citizens for his insane ideology.''
Referring to recent threats came from
Iranian leaders (who have raised the possibility 'of
missile attacks against nuclear targets in Israel), Steinitz said that
' Shihab-3 'are''inaccurate''and do not represent
for now a threat to the nuclear Dimona.
''Li with our Arrow can intercept''added Steinitz,
few hours before it was known to fail the test in
California. Steinitz did however indicate that the issue of missile and nuclear potential
of 'Iran is not only
Israel. '''s West - he concluded - should not expect that
is the' Little Israel '
to take preventive action to save the world from Iranian nuclear weapons: the world is free
led by the U.S. to stop Iran from having the bomb''
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