[Defense News] Barbara Opall-Rome - The Pentagon's Missile Defense Agency (MDA) has agreed to a five-year extension of joint testing and upgrades of the U.S.-Israel Arrow system after a Feb. 11 test, conducted at night over the Mediterranean Sea, featured the debut launch of the Arrow M-4 interceptor jointly produced by Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) and Boeing, its American partner. The upgraded defensive system demonstrated its ability to intercept targets at higher altitudes and longer ranges, so that fallout from mass destructive warheads would remain far away from Israeli territory, Israeli officials said. "We widened the defensive envelope," said Uri Sinai, manager of the IAI division which designed and produces the Arrow interceptor.
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