Israel’s much-famed missile shield that beat Iran’s lethal missiles is going to Europe, its name is…, it is dangerous because…

Arrow 3 missile defence system: Germany is expected to obtain one of Israel’s top-notch missile-defense systems, known as the Arrow 3, that was instrumental in protecting Israel from a couple of major Iranian attacks earlier this year. The Arrow 3, an advanced tool designed to neutralize ballistic missiles in space, has a deployment date set for 2025, in Germany. It’s all part of a whopping $3.5 billion deal unveiled last fall, a deal which authorities hail as Israel’s grandest defense export yet.
As tensions rise in Europe and for NATO allies like Germany due to Russia’s expanding missile threats near their eastern frontiers, a transfer is taking place. Moscow’s recent launch of a new mid-range ballistic missile aimed at Ukraine emphasizes this threat.
The Arrow 3 system comes into play amidst this high-stakes situation. First introduced in the early days of conflict between Israel and Hamas the previous year, it demonstrated its mettle successfully fending off two significant missile attacks from Iran back in the months of April and October this year. The main engineer for the Arrow 3 system shared this in a recent conversation with Business Insider.
Arrow 3 is the right answer for Germany, and, also, it’ll be a part of an even greater system to German allies in Europe,” Boaz Levy, the CEO of the state-run Israel Aerospace Industries, said in a recent interview.
Inside Russia’s new missile, ‘Oreshnik’
On November 21, a new kind of Russian missile carrying six warheads struck Dnipro, Ukraine. Senior officials said it caused limited damage. But the first combat use of such a design — which Russian President Vladimir Putin called unstoppable — has drawn scrutiny from Western military experts.
An examination by two of these experts of the debris recovered from the new intermediate-range ballistic missile (IRBM), known in Russian as the Oreshnik, or hazel tree, showed how it dropped multiple payloads across the target area, a characteristic of ICBMs.
After the missile strike, Putin said the Oreshnik was hypersonic and could not be intercepted, but Lewis and other experts noted that all ballistic missiles of that range are hypersonic, and that missile interceptors such as Israel’s Arrow 3 and the U.S. SM-3 Block 2A were designed to destroy them.
The two largest pieces of debris were part of its warhead bus, which sits atop the booster and eventually drops the warheads from space onto their targets, said Jeffrey Lewis, director of the East Asia Nonproliferation Program at the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies in California.
(With inputs from agencies)

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