(Breaking Defense) Sydney J. Freedberg, Jr. - With the second battery of the Iron Dome missile defense system en route from Israel to the U.S. Army, manufacturer Rafael's Pini Yungman told me: "We have a very detailed plan" to integrate the batteries into the Army's new missile defense network (IBCS) "and to conduct a demonstration [at] White Sands" in early 2021. Rafael and its U.S. partner, Raytheon, want to sell the Pentagon a lot more than two batteries. Raytheon has already integrated Iron Dome with Marine Corps command systems, complete with a live-fire test in 2019. "This year we will conduct another test with the Marines," Yungman said, with a more extensive integration into American systems.
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