Jane’s 360:
The NATO Air and Missile Defence Command and Control Security Accreditation Board (ASAB) informed the Czech Ministry of Defence (MoD) on 7 June that the Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) Elta EL/M-2084 3D mobile air-defence radar (MADR) systems it plans to procure for the Army of the Czech Republic (ACR) could not be integrated into NATO’s air-defence architecture since the system is not manufactured by an alliance member country.
“It is an extraordinary decision”, Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babiš told the media on 7 June.
Babiš said that he had earlier consulted Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu about the MADR procurement and was assured that the Israel Defense Forces use the system in combat and that it had also been procured by the armed forces of NATO member Canada.
