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US army to purchase Iron Dome systems from Israel

US military says Iron Dome missile defence system manufactured by Israeli defence contractors 'will be assessed and experimented'

Israel's Iron Dome system has received hundreds of millions of dollars in funding from Washington (AFP/File photo)

By MEE and agencies • 6 February 2019

The United States army has announced plans to purchase the Iron Dome missile defence system from Israel, which has already received hundreds of millions of dollars from Washington.

In a statement on Wednesday, the US military said it will "assess a variety of options for its long-term [indirect fire protection capacity] solution".

"The Iron Dome will be assessed and experimented as a system that is currently available to protect deployed US military service members against a wide variety of indirect fire threats and aerial threats," US Army Colonel Patrick Seiber said, as reported by CNN.

The military did not say how many Iron Dome systems it intends to buy, nor did it say where they would be deployed.

"No decisions have been made regarding the fielding or experimentation of Iron Dome in specific theaters," Seiber said in the statement.

Developed by Israeli defence firms Rafael Advanced Defense Systems and Israel Aerospace Industries, the Iron Dome is a missile defence system that has the capacity to fire a missile at an incoming projectile and destroy it in mid-air.

The Israeli army has touted the system, first deployed in 2011, as a way to protect against incoming rockets fired from the Gaza Strip.

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