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At the end of 2020 Israel conducted two weeks of anti-aircraft system tests in the eastern Mediterranean, against targets representing multiple missile and rocket threats. To handle this kind of multiple-threat attack, Israel ran successful tests demonstrating three different air-defense systems communicating with each other using a centralized target detection and fire-control network to take down multiple/different types of targets. This new fire-control network enabled each air-defense system to successfully attack targets it was best capable of destroying. This test also showed that Iron Dome was capable of destroying an incoming cruise missile. Other incoming weapons included unguided rockets, a ballistic missile, and UAVs. The test was mainly about proving that a new integrated sensors and fire-control system worked. The integrated system provided a single 3-D picture of the battlefield, by combining data from the American Missile Defense Satellite early warning system plus the local radar systems used by Iron Dome: C-Dome (Iron Dome mounted on Israeli corvettes and offshore natural gas extraction platforms), David’s Sling (formerly Magic Wand), and Arrow, the Israel-based ABM (Anti-Ballistic Missile) system. Such an integrated system was needed to protect Israel from a massive Iranian attack using rockets, explosives-laden UAVs, and cruise missiles launched from Lebanon and Gaza, as well as IRBMs (Intermediate Range Ballistic Missiles) launched from Iran and shorter-range ballistic missiles launched from Syria or (illegally) Iraq…

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