A fifth Iron Dome battery is going to be operating in the near future as defense officials are working to upgrade the system. The upgrade will enable the rocket defense system to detect and incoming projectile sooner, resulting in an increasingly rapid intercept.
Officials are signaling the fifth unit will be up and running in the coming weeks, and a sixth unit will be operational by the summer of 2013. As reported by YWN-ISRAEL last month, the new systems are the result of an approval of funds by the US Congress.
(YWN – Israel Desk, Jerusalem)
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Pathetic. No other country would accept incoming rocket fire as a fact that had to dealt with by a defensive shield. Imagine how the US would react if some drug lords in Mexico began firing rockets into San Diego! Israel should unleash its military and flatten these terrorists!
#2: Actually the US has at least half a dozen systems in place or in development to protect it from incoming rockets of all varieties, from those similar to what Israel is dealing with all the way to ICBMs. They include: THAAD; SM-3; PAC-3; Hawk; Phalanx; ABL (now defunct); HELLADS (maybe); and others.