Israel Aborts Test Fire of Arrows Missile

It is reported from the USA that an attempted firing of an Israeli Arrows II missile was aborted during a test off the Californian coast.

Whilst the Arrow is reported to have intercepted and exchanged data with the missile that was dropped from a C-17 aircraft, “not all test conditions to launch the Arrow Interceptor were met and it was not launched,” the Pentagon said. The test is partly underwritten by Washington in a step that is viewed as being an attempt by the US to convince Israel not to pre-emptively strike Iran.

A test carried out in Israel in April this year saw an Arrows missile successfully intercept a Blue Sparrow missile which was purpose-built to emulate an Iranian Shihab-3 missile.