Breaking Defense:

The Iron Dome system successfully defeated cruise missile and unmanned aerial system surrogates during a recent test with the US Army at White Sands Missile Range, the Israeli company announced today.

The Army currently has two Iron Dome batteries, which it calls Iron Dome Defense System, that are designated as its incremental cruise missile defense system while the service develops its Indirect Fires Protection Capability (IFPC), one of its top 35 modernization priorities. The service received the first Iron Dome system in 2020.

According to a press release, soldiers with the Army’s third battalion of the 43rd Air Defense Artillery Regiment “successfully detected, tracked, and intercepted multiple CM and UAS surrogate targets.” Pini Yungman, executive vice president and head of the company’s air and missile defense directorate, added that US soldiers used the system against a “variety of threats and intercepted targets from different ranges.”

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