Contract signifies Israel's commitment to increasing defense self-sufficiency while reducing reliance on traditional kinetic interception systems, which can be expensive to operate.
Proven Israeli technology should be an urgent U.S. priority to fill the 'dangerous gaps in American defense,' say experts on the geopolitical situation in the Mideast.
Israel and the US completed a drill that tested the country's combined systems that are meant to defend Israel's skies in an event of thousands of missiles raining down on the Jewish State.
Working in conjunction with the Indian Navy, Israel successfully tested the Barak 8, another cutting-edge defense system designed to contend with the region's threats.
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