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Army

Israel Deploys Third Iron Dome Battery

By Cal Biesecker

Friday, September 2nd, 2011

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To defend more citizens from rocket attack, Israel emplaced its third Iron Dome battery this week, the day before the nation’s two million children returned to school, the military said. The mobile air defense system developed by Israeli defense company Rafael Advanced Defense Systems is designed to intercept very short-range rockets and artillery shells from up to 70 kilometers. The newly deployed battery is to protect the 200,000 citizens living in the city of Ashdod--a population equivalent to that of…

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