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Article: New Threats Demand Advanced Missile Defense Systems, IAI Exec Says.(Israel Aircraft Industries Ltd.)
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- Defense Daily International
- Article date:
- August 17, 2001
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By Vago Muradian
WASHINGTON--Israel and its Western allies must develop increasingly sophisticated missile defenses to counter advances in ballistic missile capabilities of such countries as Iraq, Iran, Syria and North Korea, some of which have demonstrated their readiness to use weapons of mass destruction during wartime, according to a top Israeli engineer.
"Since 1991, no one can claim that no enemy will launch a missile attack. Up to 1991, there was a belief that no one would dare do that. Well, Iraq did. Iraq and others, including Iran, have been working very hard to do better the next time, and, quite frankly, it's not all that hard to do," Dan ...