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An Arrow-3 missile interceptor. Credit: Israeli Ministry of Defense Spokesperson’s Office.

Arrow 3, Germany and the missile shield over Europe

How Israel’s premier defense missile system developed and eventually became the system being used to defend Europe.

September 18, 2023

Terrorist groups launch rockets at Israel from the Gaza Strip, on May 13, 2023. Photo by Atia Mohammed/Flash90.

Will the rocket threat from Jenin match that from Gaza?

What are the prospects that the terrorist organizations in northern Samaria will acquire missile capabilities equal to those of Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad in Gaza? Israel needs to prepare for what may soon transpire inside Palestinian cities.

September 4, 2023

U.S.-made MIM-23 Hawk anti-aircraft missiles on display at a military parade in Tel Aviv in 1965. Credit: Avraham Amir via Wikimedia Commons.

Israeli Hawk missiles and the war in Ukraine

Washington has reportedly requested that Israel provide some of its remaining Hawk missiles to the U.S. for subsequent delivery to Ukraine—if true, Israel’s political echelon faces a dilemma.

February 20, 2023

A Turkish Bayraktar TB2 mid-altitude long-endurance (MALE) unmanned aerial vehicle on display at an exhibition in Kiev, Ukraine, Oct. 11, 2019. Credit: Wikimedia Commons.

Missiles and UAVs in the Ukraine war: A preliminary evaluation

A significant dimension of the war in Ukraine is the extensive use of UAVs and precision missiles, both ballistic and cruise. Of the three types of weapons, precision cruise missiles seem to have been the most effective to date.

May 22, 2022

An Iranian Saegheh-2 drone on display at the Eqtedar 40 defense exhibition in Tehran, Feb. 5, 2019. Credit: Hossein Mersadi/Wikimedia Commons.

Iran’s UAVs tip the balance of power in the Middle East

Their growing capabilities have raised the threat of Iran’s unmanned aerial vehicles from nuisance to strategic level, on par with that posed by Tehran’s rockets and missiles.

January 25, 2022

The ruins of ancient Marib in Yemen, Aug. 18, 1986. Credit: Bernard Gagnon via Wikimedia Commons.

The battle for Marib: A tipping point of the civil war in Yemen?

The West is focusing on the tragic humanitarian costs of the war in Yemen while turning a blind eye to the significant strategic implications of a Houthi/Iranian victory.

April 14, 2021

A Simorgh rocket is launched during the inauguration of Imam Khomeini National Space Base in northern Iran, July 27, 2017. Credit: Tasnim news agency via Wikimedia Commons.

Iran’s winged horse rocket: Another step towards global reach

The launch of Iran’s first solid-propellant space rocket is highly significant.

March 2, 2021

An Iron Dome missile-defense battery set up near the southern Israeli town of Ashdod fires an interceptor missile on July 16, 2014. Photo by Miriam Alster/Flash90.

Israel and the precision-guided missile threat

The received wisdom that “missiles and rockets don’t win wars,” always a dubious assertion, is now obsolete and demonstrably false.

June 16, 2020