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Arrow anti-missile defense system successfully tested in U.S.
Israel and the United States on Thursday held a successful test of the Arrow anti-ballistic missile system - the world's only operational missile killer system - off the coast of California.

The Defense Ministry and the Israel Aircraft Industries announced Thursday that the Arrow successfully intercepted an incoming Scud ballistic missile, in flight over the Pacific Ocean.  The realistic test of the Arrow ABM system was the first of its kind and had been planned for two years.  

Since the last Gulf War, Israel - with U.S. financial backing - has developed the Arrow anti-missile missile.  At approximately 8:25 P.M. Israel time, a Scud missile, confiscated by the United States from Iraq, was launched from a U.S. Naval Air Warfare Center, at Point Magu near Los Angeles. The Scud was identified and fixed by the system's radar, Green Pine, and it directed an Arrow missile at the target, intercepting it fully. This "realistic scenario could not be carried out in Israel because of safety reasons" a Defense Ministry announcement said.

This was the 12th test of an Arrow missile and the 7th of the overall system, that includes the Green Pine radar. Defense Minister Shaul Mofaz described the results of the test as "being further proof for the technological superiority of the Israeli defense industries."

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