The IDF announced on Thursday that its most sophisticated air defense shield, the Arrow 3 system, has for the first time ever successfully intercepted a missile in a real-life situation, downing a missile aimed at Eilat, Israel’s southernmost city.
According to the Israel Defense Forces and the Defense Ministry, the Arrow 3 missile detected and destroyed a surface-to-surface missile over the Red Sea, which was reportedly launched from Yemen.
This event marks a significant milestone as it is the inaugural operational use of the Arrow 3 missile in an actual combat scenario, as well as its first successful interception. The system had previously been tested in controlled conditions, but this incident demonstrates its operational effectiveness in a real-world situation.
Earlier intercepts of hostile projectiles, including a Houthi ballistic missile from Yemen and a long-range rocket from Gaza in recent weeks, were neutralized by the Arrow 2 missile, an earlier version of Israel’s missile defense technology.
Introduced into service in 2017, the Arrow 3 system is a cornerstone of Israel’s multi-layered defense network and is specifically engineered to engage ballistic missiles at high altitudes, beyond the Earth’s atmosphere.
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Thank You Hashem for providing us with these defenses. Please obliterate our enemies so that we will have no need for them!
At some point, does the IAF have the capability to take out the missile launch sites in Yemen which would involve flights roughly 1400 miles each way over the Red Sea parallel to Saudi airspace? The U.S. has just positioned the Eisenhower Carrier Group in the Red Sea which could make quick work of those sites but would also involve a significant escalation of U.S. involvement in the conflict.