{"id":1033,"date":"2016-06-30T13:40:13","date_gmt":"2016-06-30T13:40:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/?p=1033"},"modified":"2016-06-30T13:40:13","modified_gmt":"2016-06-30T13:40:13","slug":"us-army-mulling-purchase-of-iron-dome-tech-to-protect-europe-from-russia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/2016\/06\/30\/us-army-mulling-purchase-of-iron-dome-tech-to-protect-europe-from-russia\/","title":{"rendered":"US ARMY MULLING PURCHASE OF IRON DOME TECH TO PROTECT EUROPE FROM RUSSIA"},"content":{"rendered":"

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A United States Army general said Monday that the U.S. is looking to purchase the short-range missile interceptor used by Israel\u2019s Iron Dome system, which would then be used for European air defense against Russia.<\/p>\n

\u201cWith all that is happening in Europe, especially the fact that Russia has really awakened itself and has really decided to rebuild its military and is really posing a threat, we are looking at how we can do the multi-tiered defense,\u201d Major General Glenn Bramhall of the U.S. Army\u2019s Air and Missile Defense Command told Reuters at a conference hosted by the Israeli security organization iHLS.<\/p>\n

Bramhall said the U.S. has test-launched the Israeli short-range interceptor missile called \u201cTamir,\u201d with the expectation of complementing the army\u2019s mid-range Patriot and THAAD interceptors within two to three years.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are looking at multiple solutions to actually create a third tier that is missing. Patriot and THAAD are great systems that do what they were designed to do. But I don\u2019t think we would want to waste a Patriot or a THAAD missile on something that can be affected by something that\u2019s lower-cost and is actually designed for that job itself,\u201d said Bramhall.<\/p>\n

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The Iron Dome has had a 90-percent success rate on intercepting Palestinian-fired rockets. Each Tamir unit would cost $100,000 for the U.S., according to Iron Dome developer Rafael Advanced Defense Systems. Bramhall said that price is \u201cwithin an acceptable range.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIt would be right for us at Rafael, and for every Israeli citizen, to support whatever the Americans decide on,\u201d Yosi Druker, a vice president at Rafael, told Reuters<\/p>\n

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