الجيش الصهيوني يعلن فشل تجربة اطلاق لمنظومة الصواريخ السهم 3

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علقت إسرائيل تجربة الجيل الجديد من نظام صواريخ "Arrow 3 | سهم 3"، اليوم الاثنين، للوقوف على مدى قدراتها في الصواريخ الباليستية خارج الغلاف الجوي، وجاء ذلك بسبب عطب تقني، وفقا لما أفادت به وزارة الدفاع الإسرائلية في بيان.

وقد تم إلغاء الاختبار "في مرحلة مبكرة"؛ عندما اكتشف المهندسون أن عملية الإطلاق "لم تستوف المعايير المطلوبة".

ويقوم الفريق المسؤول عن النظام الدفاعي بتحليل ما حدث لمواصلة العمل على تطوير منظومة الصواريخ التي ينظر إليها باعتبارها تتمتع بالقدرة على القيام باعتراض فريد من نوعه، مصمم للحماية من الصواريخ الباليستية وتفجيرها خارج الغلاف الجوي.

جدير بالذكر أن "هيئة الدفاع الصاروخي" الإسرائيلية ووكالة الدفاع الأمريكية قد اشتركتا في وضع هذا النظام الذي لم يعرف اليوم طريقه نحو التجريب.

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Arrow 3 missile test called off over safety concerns
System was supposed to shoot down simulated ballistic missile, but target 'didn't meet safety codes,' Defense Ministry says

The Defense Ministry called off a test of its Arrow 3 missile defense system on Monday, in light of a safety violation concerning the simulated target.

“The trial was called off at an early stage, after the target that was launched did not meet the safety codes of the test, which had been set in advance,” the ministry said in a statement.

defense Ministry officials said the target, known as the Black Sparrow, which was supposed to simulate an incoming ballistic missile, did not fly at the proper altitude and so an interception could have put nearby aircraft at risk.

In light of the issue with the target, the trial was declared a “no test” by the chief engineer, which ministry officials said is distinct from a failed test, as the Arrow 3 interceptor missile was never launched.

The ministry launched an investigation into why the Black Sparrow missile did not function properly.

The Arrow 3 missile defense system that was delivered to the Israeli Air Force on January 18, 2017. (Defense Ministry)
The Arrow 3 system, which was declared operational in January, represents the highest level of Israel’s multi-tiered missile defense network.

The system, which was developed in a joint Israeli-American program, is designed to shoot down intercontinental ballistic missiles outside the atmosphere, taking out projectiles and their nuclear, biological, chemical or conventional warheads closer to their launch sites. It is a more advanced version of the Arrow and Arrow 2 systems.

It is considered to be one of the most powerful in the world. Its design is the brainchild of the Defense Ministry’s Israel Missile Defense Organization and the US Missile Defense Agency, but the system was actually manufactured by the missile division of the Israel Aerospace Industry.

The Arrow 3 has been in development for nearly a decade, starting in 2008.

File: An Iron Dome battery seen near the southern Israeli town of Netivot on December 27, 2014. (Talucho/Flash90)
It is complemented by a number of other missile defense systems, designed to protect Israel from short-, medium- and long-range attacks. The Iron Dome, for instance, is routinely used to knock down short-range rockets from the Gaza Strip. The David’s Sling, deployed earlier this year, is designed to intercept medium-range missiles.

With the Arrow 3 system declared operational, Israel and the United States are thought to be the only countries capable of shooting down ballistic missiles in space.

Many of the systems shared by the Arrow 2 and Arrow 3 — notably the radar and command-and-control systems — have also been upgraded ahead of the Arrow 3’s full integration into the air force’s arsenal.

“Along with the Arrow 2 system, this will add interception opportunities that will lessen the chances of a strike against the State of Israel,” the ministry said earlier this year.

In 2014, a test of the system in which it attempted to shoot down an incoming target failed, with the test being changed at the last minute from a real-world “engagement test,” in which the system would actually attempt to shoot down an incoming missile, to a far less dramatic target-tracking exercise.

In December 2015, Israel and the United States successfully shot down a target with the Arrow 3 ballistic missile interceptor, the first validation of the advanced system’s abilities.

Times of Israel staff contributed to this report

 

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Arrow 3 trial canceled at last moment

Cancelation of the test, due to a fault in the target missile, won't affect operational deployment of the anti-ballistic missile defense system.




The Ministry of Defense today canceled a launching of the Arrow 3 missile in a complex test, the first of its kind, designed to adapt the Israeli defense system to future threats from the deadly and precise ballistic missiles being developed by Iran. The trial was planned to take place today from the Palmachim base, but did not take place because of a malfunction in the Sparrow target missile designed to resemble an enemy missile launched against Israel.

The Ministry of Defense explained that the launching of the Arrow 3 toward the target missile had been canceled for "considerations of safety," saying "The launched target did not meet the safety conditions set in advance."

The cancelation of the test should not affect the existing operational deployment of the Arrow 2 and Arrow 3 anti-ballistic missile defense systems. The test was planned a long time ago as part of the annual work plan of the Ministry of Defense Homa Administration (Israel Missile Organization) and the US Missile Defense Agency (MDA). It was designed to test the future capabilities of Arrow 3 missiles, especially the operational response to new ballistic missiles designed to threaten Israel in the coming years, including a long-range precision missile being developed by Iran's military industries.

The Arrow 3 missiles are considered new, and the Israeli air force made them operational only during the past year, following many years of development. The Arrow is capable of intercepting enemy missiles outside the earth's atmosphere and providing Israel with a second and third opportunity to intercept missiles bearing non-conventional warheads, if the first interceptor does not destroy the target missile.

The test planned for today was to have taken place at a height of several hundred kilometers, a height at which an Israeli weapons system had never before been tested. Before the test, an Israeli F-15 plane flying over the sea launched a Sparrow target missile. For reasons still being investigated, the target missile did not behave the way that the test planners expected, and the interceptor missile was therefore not launched from the Palmachim base. The test managers therefore declared a no test.

Defense sources explained that the main consideration leading to the test cancelation at the last minute was concern that intercepting the target missile would cause a serious security event, due to uncontrolled dispersal of fragments over a large area, which could jeopardize airplane traffic.


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Before the test launch, the flight routes to Ben Gurion Airport were changed. In an attempt to minimize damage in the event of such a test, the Ministry of Defense uses a target that creates few fragments, but also sets other safety margins. If there is no great certainty about the test's safety, it is called off.

"Safety takes priority over everything in such a situation," Homa head Moshe Fatal said. "Cancelation of the test has no consequences whatsoever for the Arrow 3 program, and certainly not for the current version used in Israel's aerial defense system. The purpose of today's test was to examine future capabilities against future threats. This is not a failure, since the trial never took place at all. The process of preparation that we went through for this test taught us a great deal in a way that will significantly improve the system."

 

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DEFENSE MINISTRY HALTS ARROW-3 TEST AFTER SIMULATOR MISSILE PROVES TO BE A DUD



The Defense Ministry halted an interception test of the latest Arrow-3 system after discovering flaws in the target missile on Monday morning.

Moshe Patel, Israel Missile Defense Organization director, said that the joint Israeli Defense Ministry and American Missile Defense Agency test was cut short after the target missile which had been fired “did not meet the predetermined safety conditions needed to carry out the test.”

According to Patel, the simulator missile — which was supposed to simulate a ballistic missile fired at Israel — was fired but it quickly became clear that it was not functioning as expected and therefore the trial was stopped before the Arrow system could be tested.

Given this, on-site engineers declared a ‘No Test,’” he stated, stressing that “the experiment was not a failure.”

Test data is being collected and analyzed by engineers to continue Arrow-3 development, the Defense Ministry said.

The Arrow-3 development program, one of the joint programs between Israel and the United States, was co-managed by the US Missile Defense Agency and IMDO, a division of the Israeli Defense Ministry. The primary contractor for the integration and development of the Arrow Weapon System is MLM of Israel Aerospace Industries, together with America’s Boeing, Elta, Elbit Systems, IMI and Rafael.



The Arrow-3 is a highly maneuverable system designed to provide ultimate air defense by intercepting ballistic missiles when they are still outside the Earth’s atmosphere and is considered one of the world’s best interceptors due to its breakthrough technological capabilities. The Arrow-3 is the only interceptor that does carry a warhead but intercepts an incoming missile by crashing into it.

The new latest generation of the Arrow-3 system is believed to have better-intercepting capabilities at a much higher altitude and much further away from Israeli soil.

In the face of the growing missile threat to Israel, the Arrow 3 will form the uppermost layer of Israel’s multilayered defense system along with the Arrow-2, David’s Sling and Iron Dome system. Together the systems provide Israel with a protective umbrella able to counter threats posed by both short and mid-range missiles used by terror groups in Gaza and Hezbollah as well as the threat posed by more sophisticated long-range Iranian ballistic missiles.

The Israel Air Force officially received Arrow-3 interceptors from the Israel Missile Defense Organization in January and according to IMDO director Moshe Patel, further trials of the system were expected as Israel will continue to develop additional capabilities for the system.

In July the US House of Representatives passed a $696 billion defense policy bill, designated $705 million for US-Israel missile defense cooperation. The 2018 National Defense Authorization Act increased spending on defense programs by $105 million and specified that funding be allocated to several Israeli programs including the Arrow-3 system.

The first use of the Arrow system occurred in April when the system was launched to intercept a Syrian regime air defense fired three surface-to-air missiles towards IAF jets.