Arrow's a Hit

摘要

Israel's long-range, Green Pine radar— used to find targets for the Arrow 2 air defense missile—is being upgraded and doubled in power, possibly making it a candidate for conversion into a directed-energy weapon for use against Iranian and Syrian threats. Officials of Israel Aircraft Industries and Israel Missile Defense Organization say no cost-benefit analysis has been conducted yet comparing kinetic and nonkinetic missile defenses, nor is there any estimate of the cost of software changes needed to focus the Green Pine radar's transmitter/receiver elements into a single beam so that it could function as a weapon.