Tel Aviv to Receive Antimissile Battery
NTI: Global Security Newswire – Tel Aviv to Receive Antimissile Battery.
The Israeli city of Tel Aviv is set to host the country’s third Arrow battery as part of national safeguards against a potential Iranian ballistic missile attack, United Press International reported yesterday (see GSN, Oct. 15).
Israel’s first two Arrow 2 batteries are fielded close to the northern city of Hadera and at an air force installation in the south. More Arrow systems are anticipated to be fielded in Israel in the next 10 years.
A high-ranking Israeli officer last week said “the new battery provides another layer of protection and gives the air force the ability to launch more than one interceptor at an incoming target,” the Jerusalem Post reported.
Additional missile defenses designed to eliminate short- and medium-range threats are also being prepared amid rising worries that Israeli metropolitan centers are vulnerable to a massive missile strike from Iran (see GSN, Sept. 22).
The latest Arrow battery is to be operated by the Citron Tree command and control system, which would also operate the two deployed units.
“It will be able to control all of the other batteries from the new position so if there’s a malfunction at the other sites we have a backup,” the officer said.
“In general, the new battery helps us disperse our assets and enables us to continue operating defense systems even if some of the other batteries are damaged during a conflict,” he added (United Press International, Nov. 2).
WarSclerotic 
November 4, 2010 at 11:09 PM
THESE ARROW ANTI-MISSILE ARMORED DEFENSES ARE CAPABLE OF DETOURING A PRETTY GOOD ASSAULT WHEN COUPLED WITH THE 20 MM. GATLIN GUNS OF THE ANTI-MISSILE TPWERS TOO THAT ARE ALREADY IN PLACE THAT CAN LITTERALY SHOOT DOWN SHORT RANGE KATUSHA ROCKETS AND OTHER MISSILES THAT ARE SHORT RANGE ON THE GAXA AND LEBANON BORDERS AS WELL AS WHAT MAY COME FROM THE GAZA STRIP AND THE OCCUPIED TERRITORIES THAT HAMAS HAS BEEN DELIVERING FOR THE SYRIQN AND IRANIAN PLANS TO EXTERMINATE ISRAEL. AND NOW THE CONFLICT IS AT A DELIMA FOR THE HEZBOLLAH AND HAMAS REGIMES FOR THE SPACE OF TIME BETWEEN THE ACTUAL ATTACK SCENARIO IS WIDENING AND LENGTHENING THE SPACE OF TIME THAT ISRAEL HAS TO PREPARE FOR SUCH AN ATTACK. THEN THE STORY TAKES ON AN ATTITUDE THAT ISRAEL MAY ACTUALLY BE ABLE TO REPEL AN ATTACK AND DEMOLISH ANY AND ALL TERRORIST THREATS TO ITS BORDERS AND LAUCH AN ATTACK ON THE SYRIAN AND IRANIAN STRONGHOLDS DEEP INSIDE THEIR BORDERS AND DEFEAT THE THREATS AGAINST ISRAEL .
November 5, 2010 at 1:52 PM
Volunteer Intelligence. Nice comment. I live in Tel Aviv and am curious about anti-missile security. Surely, we aren’t expecting the Air Force to shoot down missiles aimed at our neighborhoods, but rather they are positioned to protect bases. But are our capabilities really that strong to deal with all those rockets and missiles? It’s also contingent on us booting boots on the ground deep in Lebanon and Syria? Aren’t the missile ranges and quantities sufficient to batter us here for a good couple of weeks. We are ready for it — each night there is a pretty cool TV commercial from the Army and Home Front Command reminding us to be prepared at home – but how unpleasant will it get?