(Reuters) The U.S. approved a $3.5 billion sale of Israel's Arrow-3 missile defense system to Germany on Thursday, in what will be Israel's biggest-ever defense deal, the Israel Defense Ministry said. The Arrow was developed jointly by Israel and the U.S. Russia's war in Ukraine laid bare a shortage of ground-based air defense systems. While Patriot and the more recently developed IRIS-T cover the medium layer of air defense, Arrow-3 - produced by Israel Aerospace Industries and Boeing - offers protection for the higher layer, designed to intercept ballistic missiles outside the earth's atmosphere.
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