Breaking Defense:
The U.S. Army’s second battery of the Iron Dome missile defense system is en route from Israel by sea to new units being created at Fort Bliss. That may just be the beginning, since manufacturer Rafael and its U.S. partner, Raytheon, want to sell the Pentagon a lot more than two batteries. They’ll need to convince skeptical Army leaders that the Israeli system can work seamlessly with American tech – and shoot down incoming cruise missiles, not just unguided rockets.
Rafael has already integrated the two U.S. batteries – launchers, radars, and mobile command posts – onto made-in-America Oshkosh military trucks. But the bigger challenge is feeding data from U.S. radars and command posts directly to the Israeli-made launchers…
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