Screengrab. Source: the Israeli Ministry of Defense.
The Israeli Ministry of Ministry and military announced on July 9 that the air force and the defense firm Rafael Advanced Defense Systems had successfully completed a recent series of tests with the David’s Sling medium-range air defense system.
According to a joint statement, David’s Sling was tested against “advanced threats,” expanding the system’s capability “and significantly improving the air defense layers of the State of Israel.”
“The existing capabilities of the system were tested in a number of challenging scenarios, which prove the capabilities of the system during conflict,” the statement said, calling it an “important milestone.”
David’s Sling was especially developed by Rafael and American defense contractor Raytheon to intercept planes, drones, tactical ballistic missiles, medium- to long-range rockets and cruise missiles, launched at ranges from 40 up to 300 kilometers.
Brigade General Eyal Grinboim, chief of air staff of the Israeli Air Force, said in a statement that “through testing this model, we have successfully demonstrated our ability to carry out successful interceptions even in the most challenging scenarios. Soldiers have proven their outstanding operational capabilities yet again.”
David’s Slaing failed its first real combat test in 2018 when it could not intercept two Soviet-made Tochka tactical ballistic missiles which were launched from southern Syria. Back then, Israeli officials cited technical reasons that could not be published due to security concerns.
During a confrontation with the Palestinian Islamic Jihad in Gaza last May, the system managed to shoot down a rocket heading to the city of Tel Aviv, and another that was aimed at Jerusalem city.
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israel isn’t going to use these junk air defence systems against hezbollah or iran. the iron dome and david sling are garbage, it makes you wonder what israel will actually use. israel has back doored every single lockheed weapon through companies like “cyberreason” which is a unit 8200 based cyber security company used to “defend” companies like lockheed martin from cyber attacks, but we all know that’s a front to steal all of american technology.
its äckell äää then äääckel …. joo never get any thing right sluppy reading dna
if stealing technology is good enough for netty, it’s good for the cyber pirates.
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the isreali apartheid regime changed the batteries. it’s all very impressive but not a patch on the iranian equipment. the regime is more concerned on the american model of making a killing….from its taxpayers.
oh dear… looks like the kikes are trying to whip up a feel good factor after getting their asses kicked out of jenin.
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“our new system will work for sure this time! buy it now!” yeah, against civilians and third world militias.
apart from the fact that i resent them calling it “david’s sling”… i wonder what they mean by the hebrew on the video: “ground breaking” – “inthe upcoming ‘defense’ battle”. other than that, they simply proved their capability in making military-tech porn (as have others). it’s probably a capable systtem against minor threats; how well will it do against more advanced missiles?
when they got a real test against the rockets from the palestinians, afther 11 days they were wining for cease fire because the system was starting shoting against there own missils !!!! wwoooohhhhaaaaa next time no more sease fire !!!