Editing Anti-ballistic missile (section)

=== Israel ===
====Arrow 2====
{{Main|Arrow (Israeli missile)}}
[[File:Arrow2 96aug.jpg|thumb|170px|right|An Arrow 2 anti-ballistic missile interceptor]]
The Arrow project was begun after the U.S. and Israel agreed to co-fund it on 6 May 1986.<ref>{{cite web |url = http://www.policyalmanac.org/world/archive/crs_israeli-us_relations.shtml |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20021104204721/http://www.policyalmanac.org/world/archive/crs_israeli-us_relations.shtml |url-status = dead |archive-date = 4 November 2002 |title = Israeli-United States Relations |publisher = Policy almanac |access-date = 11 May 2012 }}</ref>

The Arrow ABM system was designed and constructed in Israel with financial support by the United States by a multibillion-dollar development program called "Minhelet Homa" (Wall Administration) with the participation of companies like [[Israel Military Industries]], [[Tadiran Telecom|Tadiran]] and [[Israel Aerospace Industries]].

During 1998 the Israeli military conducted a successful test of their Arrow missile. Designed to intercept incoming missiles travelling at up to 2-mile/s (3&nbsp;km/s), the Arrow is expected to perform much better than the Patriot did in the Gulf War. On 29 July 2004 Israel and the United States carried out a joint experiment in the US, in which the Arrow was launched against a real Scud missile. The experiment was a success, as the Arrow destroyed the Scud with a direct hit. During December 2005 the system was deployed successfully in a test against a replicated [[Shahab-3]] missile. This feat was repeated on 11 February 2007.<ref>{{cite news | url = http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/6352659.stm | publisher = BBC | work = News | title = Israeli missile test 'successful' | date = 11 February 2007 | access-date = 25 April 2010 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20071216001604/http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/6352659.stm | archive-date = 16 December 2007 | url-status = live }}</ref>

==== Arrow 3 ====
{{main|Arrow 3}}
[[File:AST-15-001.jpg|thumb|[[Arrow 3]] in testing.]]
The Arrow 3 system is capable of exo-atmosphere interception of ballistic missiles, including of [[ICBM]]s.<ref name=is/> It also acts as an anti-satellite weapon.

Lieutenant General Patrick J. O'Reilly, Director of the US [[Missile Defense Agency]], said: "The design of Arrow 3 promises to be an extremely capable system, more advanced than what we have ever attempted in the U.S. with our programs."

On 10 December 2015 Arrow 3 scored its first intercept in a complex test designed to validate how the system can detect, identify, track and then discriminate real from decoy targets delivered into space by an improved [[Sparrow (target missile)|Silver Sparrow]] target missile.<ref name=goodtest>{{cite web |url=http://www.defensenews.com/story/defense/air-space/strike/2015/12/10/us-israel-arrow-3-intercepts-target-space/77087084/ |work=[[Defense News]] |title=US-Israel Arrow-3 intercepts target in space |first=Barbara |last=Opall-Rome |date=2015-12-10 |access-date=2015-12-10}}</ref> According to officials, the milestone test paves the way toward [[Low rate initial production|low-rate initial production]] of the Arrow 3.<ref name=goodtest/>

====David’s sling====
{{Main|David's Sling}}
[[File:Dec.,_2015_-_David%27s_Sling_Weapons_System_Stunner_Missile_successfully_completed_a_series_of_tests_(3).jpg|thumb|Israel's [[David's Sling]], designed to intercept tactical ballistic missiles]]
David's Sling (Hebrew: קלע דוד), also sometimes called Magic Wand (Hebrew: שרביט קסמים), is an Israel Defense Forces military system being jointly developed by the Israeli defense contractor Rafael Advanced Defense Systems and the American defense contractor [[Raytheon]], designed to intercept tactical ballistic missiles, as well as medium- to long-range rockets and slower-flying cruise missiles, such as those possessed by [[Hezbollah]], fired at ranges from 40&nbsp;km to 300&nbsp;km. It is designed with the aim of intercepting the newest generation of tactical ballistic missiles, such as [[9K720 Iskander|Iskander]].