10.01.2021, 15:50
Zitat:US Army aims to have Iron Dome deployment ready by Septemberhttps://www.janes.com/defence-news/news-...-september
The US Army is training soldiers on how to operate Rafael’s Iron Dome, with the goal of having the first battery ready to deploy by September and the second by about December, the service told Janes .
Israel delivered the first air-defence battery to the army in September 2020 and the weapon is now at White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico, Donald Herrick, a spokesman for the Air and Missile Defense Cross Functional Team, wrote in a 6 January email. The army then received the second battery in early January and Herrick said this one should arrive at the missile range by early March.
As for the manning part of the equation, the service activated two air defence artillery batteries at Fort Bliss, Texas, in November 2020. [...]
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