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Israel 'Successfully Tests' Arrow 3 Missile Defense System in Alaska

What was the need of Arrow in the presence of Iron Dome, Patriot and Thaad? How different is Arrow from Thaad?
 
What was the need of Arrow in the presence of Iron Dome, Patriot and Thaad? How different is Arrow from Thaad?
the altitude. iron dome, patriot, s-400 all are air defences with anti ballistic missile capability. a ballistic missile would fly over them and hit targets behind them. THAAD, Arrow and such systems are dedicated anti ballistic missiles. a ballistic missile mostly flies at least over 60 km of earth while patriot, s-400 and iron dome service ceiling is 40 km best.
designing a dedicated anti ballistic missile is really hard as missiles like topol-m rises at 160 km of earth also there is ionosphere that interferes in radar target acquisition.
 
What was the need of Arrow in the presence of Iron Dome, Patriot and Thaad? How different is Arrow from Thaad?
Iron Dome is designed vs. artillery rockets.

Patriot PAC-3 intercepts tactical ballistic missiles at 10-20 km altitude. Israel developed David's Sling for similar purpose (which is much cheaper).

Arrow-3 intercepts tactical and medium range ballistic missiles in space (over 100 km altitude). It is similar to THAAD but again much cheaper.
 

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