 'With THAAD, the Patriot system, and its own Arrow system, Israel, together with the US, will have the most sophisticated antiballistic defence system in the world'  'What Israel fears most is the prospect of Moscow supplying Damascus with the Iskander-E ground-to-ground missile, with a range of 200 kilometres... In the eventuality of a missile exchange [between Israel and Syria], Iran would most likely intervene with its Shehab-3 missiles to deliver coordinated strikes against Israeli targets, while Hizbullah would chip in from Lebanon, targeting towns and settlements in northern Israel  US army missiles  Shehab-3  A Russian missile  The sea-based X-band radar  Hizbullah's Katyushas  Israel's Arrow  US destroyer firing a missile parent page (21 - 27 August 2008, issue #911) |