{"id":28320,"date":"2015-12-11T15:19:30","date_gmt":"2015-12-11T15:19:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/c4isrnet\/uncategorized\/2015\/12\/11\/us-israel-arrow-3-intercepts-target-in-space\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T18:33:25","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T18:33:25","slug":"us-israel-arrow-3-intercepts-target-in-space","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/c4isrnet\/special-reports\/missile-defense\/2015\/12\/11\/us-israel-arrow-3-intercepts-target-in-space\/","title":{"rendered":"US-Israel Arrow-3 intercepts target in space"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">TEL AVIV \u2014\u00a0The U.S.-Israel Arrow Weapon System (AWS) and its Upper-Tier Arrow-3 missile scored its first intercept Thursday in a complex test designed to validate how the system can detect, identify, track and then discriminate real from decoy targets traveling quickly through space.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The milestone test, conducted over the Mediterranean Sea, paves the way toward low-rate initial production of the exo-atmospheric interceptor developed by state-owned Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) and supported by its U.S. partner, Boeing, program officials said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Less than three minutes after an Israel Air Force fighter launched an improved Silver Sparrow target missile at 8:12 a.m. over the Mediterranean Sea, program officials at Palmachim Air Base launched the two-stage Arrow-3, which uses pivoting optical sensors and its own upper-stage kick motor to steer itself precisely into incoming targets.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">By 8:17 a.m., the system had selected from among several objects flying through space \u2014 each not much larger than a one-liter bottle of Coke \u2014 and steered its warhead into a direct hit of the correct target, program officials said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;The Arrow system in operational configuration detected and selected the right target from several in exo-atmospheric conditions. 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