NATO shows interest in IDF’s new Iron Dome rocket shield

By ICEJ News

10 Mar 2010

Israel’s rush to develop the Iron Dome air defense system to defend against short-range rockets is getting a major boost from NATO, as several countries in the alliance who have troops deployed in Afghanistan are expressing interest in the system. If Israel is able to sell units to these countries, it will drive the cost of each unit down and speed up production, which will mean more systems will be available sooner to defend Israeli cities as well. “Anyone fighting in Afghanistan and Iraq today is interested in this system,” one official involved in the Iron Dome project said Tuesday. The IDF has already begun training with prototypes of the system and the first units should be deployed along th e Gaza border in a few weeks.

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