(Times of Israel) Judah Ari Gross - Israel conducted a successful test of its Arrow 3 anti-ballistic missile system on Tuesday outside the Earth's atmosphere. The trial tested a number of "breakthrough" capabilities which can be used immediately by the Israeli Air Force, the Defense Ministry's Missile Defense Organization head Moshe Patel said Tuesday. Boaz Levy, president of Israel Aerospace Industries, which manufactures the Arrow 3, said the breakthroughs involved the ways in which the system detects incoming threats and calculates launch trajectories for interceptors. The Arrow system's radar detected the target, the fire management system plotted the interception, "two Arrow 3 interceptors were fired at the target, and they completed their mission successfully," the Defense Ministry said.
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