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Army

‘Improved Arrow’ Test Successful, Israel Says

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Wednesday, April 8th, 2009

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By B.C. Kessner With recent events and speeches nudging missile defense back toward center stage, Israel made a statement of its own Tuesday with a successful test of an "improved" Arrow Weapon System interceptor designed to defeat ballistic missile threats, according to the Israel Ministry of Defense (IMoD). "The future protecting system is an important project for Israel," Ehud Barak, Israel's Defense Minister said after the test. The 17th Arrow system experiment pitted it against several extremely challenging target missile…

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Congress

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