“Israel”, US agree to sell Arrow 3 Air Defense System to Germany: Reports
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Germany is also interested in purchasing the Iron Dome system, which is used to repel short-range threats, according to the Jerusalem Post.
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The "Arrow II" intercepting missile launcher at the Palmachim Israeli Airforce base in 2014. (Flash 90)
The US and “Israel” have approved the sale of the Arrow 3 interceptor for longer-range threats, according to The Jerusalem Post newspaper, citing senior German air force official Ingo Gerhartz.
Gerhartz told the newspaper said that the purchase of the air defense system "starts with the approval of Israel and the United States and they gave us the approval."
"They gave us the approval that we can cooperate on it. But, we still have to talk about the details," the official was cited as saying.
Germany is also interested in purchasing the Iron Dome system, which is used to repel short-range threats, according to the newspaper.
"And for higher interceptors, we have the Patriot weapons system that we will modernize. If it means [threats at a range of ] 15,000km and then it is exoatmospheric we don’t have anything and that is why I had a close look at the Arrow 3 and we are really interested in the system," the official said.
It is worth mentioning that an independent global security think tank ranked “Israel” as the tenth-largest international weapons exporter over the last five years.
“Israel” accounted for 2.4 percent of international arms exports from 2017 to 2021, according to the report.
