[Defense News] Israel is developing a high-flying, long-endurance unmanned infrared sensor to assist in those white-knuckled minutes when it may be forced to spot incoming nuclear warheads amid dozens of decoys sent to confound national missile defenses. A prototype of the long-range, high-resolution target-discrimination sensor has already been tested aboard a business jet under a closely held Israeli-German program called "Bluebird." According to U.S. and international government sources, Israel has proposed integrating the unmanned target discriminator into its future national missile defense network.
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