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NOVEMBER 27, 2017 20:10
Israel is highly dependent on the sea and fears Hezbollah and Hamas may target gas rigs in any future conflict
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(photo credit: COURTESY IDF SPOKESMAN'S OFFICE)
The Israel army’s naval Iron Dome was declared operational Monday evening, the IDF spokesperson’s unit announced.
The Tamir-Adir system was declared operational after a final test where Grad rockets were fired in both single shots and in barrages at the INS Lahav Sa’ar 5 corvette as well as towards Israel's offshore gas rigs, scenarios envisioned in future conflicts with Hamas or Hezbollah.
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During the test the navy took an Iron Dome launcher and placed it on the helipad of the ship and connected it to the ship’s radar. The naval Iron Dome uses the Tamir interceptor missile which was developed for the Iron Dome as well as the Adir radar used in the Arrow system.
In the experiment all the rockets fired were intercepted by the system.
Designed to shoot down short-range rockets, the Iron Dome is able to calculate when rockets will land in open areas, choosing not to intercept them, or towards civilian centers. It went into service in April 2011 and has since been used during two military operations against Hamas, intercepted roughly 85 percent of projectiles fired towards Israeli civilian centers since its first deployment.
The IDF believes that Hezbollah has long-range missiles which can hit the country's gas rigs, which supply a large amount of the electricity consumed in Israel. And while the threat posed by Hezbollah on Israel’s northern border remains the main focus of the Navy and the IDF in general, the threat on Israel’s border with Gaza remains just as real.
During Operation Protective Edge in 2014 there were attempts by Hamas to hit a drilling platform, but the projectile was not precise enough to strike it. The IDF has decided not to place Iron Dome batteries on gas rigs themselves for safety reasons, one of them that a fire could break out on one of the rigs. Israel, which is highly dependent on the sea, continuously improves the technology behind the country’s anti-missile systems, and the last upgrade to the Iron Dome was in April in order to expand and improve the performance capabilities of the system in the face of an unprecedented range of threats.
Due to the growing threats posed by the arsenal of Grad rockets and other longer-range more accurate projectiles in the hands of terror groups, the Navy has changed the design of its Sa’ar 6 Corvette warships that are currently being manufactured for Israel in Germany to have the naval Iron Dome short range defense missile launchers integrated into them when they arrive.
http://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/IDF-declares-Naval-Iron-Dome-system-operational-515337
NOVEMBER 27, 2017 20:10
Israel is highly dependent on the sea and fears Hezbollah and Hamas may target gas rigs in any future conflict
2 minute read.
(photo credit: COURTESY IDF SPOKESMAN'S OFFICE)
The Israel army’s naval Iron Dome was declared operational Monday evening, the IDF spokesperson’s unit announced.
The Tamir-Adir system was declared operational after a final test where Grad rockets were fired in both single shots and in barrages at the INS Lahav Sa’ar 5 corvette as well as towards Israel's offshore gas rigs, scenarios envisioned in future conflicts with Hamas or Hezbollah.
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During the test the navy took an Iron Dome launcher and placed it on the helipad of the ship and connected it to the ship’s radar. The naval Iron Dome uses the Tamir interceptor missile which was developed for the Iron Dome as well as the Adir radar used in the Arrow system.
In the experiment all the rockets fired were intercepted by the system.
Designed to shoot down short-range rockets, the Iron Dome is able to calculate when rockets will land in open areas, choosing not to intercept them, or towards civilian centers. It went into service in April 2011 and has since been used during two military operations against Hamas, intercepted roughly 85 percent of projectiles fired towards Israeli civilian centers since its first deployment.
The IDF believes that Hezbollah has long-range missiles which can hit the country's gas rigs, which supply a large amount of the electricity consumed in Israel. And while the threat posed by Hezbollah on Israel’s northern border remains the main focus of the Navy and the IDF in general, the threat on Israel’s border with Gaza remains just as real.
During Operation Protective Edge in 2014 there were attempts by Hamas to hit a drilling platform, but the projectile was not precise enough to strike it. The IDF has decided not to place Iron Dome batteries on gas rigs themselves for safety reasons, one of them that a fire could break out on one of the rigs. Israel, which is highly dependent on the sea, continuously improves the technology behind the country’s anti-missile systems, and the last upgrade to the Iron Dome was in April in order to expand and improve the performance capabilities of the system in the face of an unprecedented range of threats.
Due to the growing threats posed by the arsenal of Grad rockets and other longer-range more accurate projectiles in the hands of terror groups, the Navy has changed the design of its Sa’ar 6 Corvette warships that are currently being manufactured for Israel in Germany to have the naval Iron Dome short range defense missile launchers integrated into them when they arrive.
http://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/IDF-declares-Naval-Iron-Dome-system-operational-515337