U.S. Army confirms plan to purchase Iron Dome anti-missile system

The U.S Army has confirmed that it will be buying two sets of the Israeli Iron Dome anti-missile system to assess it ability to “protect deployed U.S. military service members against a wide variety of indirect fire threats and aerial threats.”

Flickr - Israel Defense Forces - Iron Dome Intercepts Rockets from the Gaza Strip
Israel Defense Forces and Nehemiya Gershoni נחמיה גרשוני [CC BY-SA 3.0], via Wikimedia Commons
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Indian Navy signs $93 million worth agreements with IAI for Barak 8 subsystems

Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) has secured $93 million worth of agreements with the Indian Navy for maintenance and other services for various sub-systems of the Barak 8 anti-air missile system.

INS Kolkata firing a Long-Range Surface-to-Air Missile
Indian Navy [GODL-India], via Wikimedia Commons

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