IAI-Boeing missile fails

JERUSALEM – The test-exercise of an advance missile defense system, a development between Israel Aerospace Industries and the U.S. aviation firm Boeing, failed Dec. 16 following a launch from the Mediterranean Sea. A senior Israeli Defense Ministry official said the exercise was to test the first live interception by the Arrow 3. The system locked and did not deploy. Arrow 3 is part of the multi-layered system Israel is developing to protect itself against both long- and short-range missile threats. (Source: The Associated Press, 12/16/14) Central Mississippi Note: Stark Aerospace of Columbus, Miss., is an American subsidiary of IAI and located at the GTR Global Industrial Aerospace Park. Stark operates Unmanned Aerial Systems, Sensors, Production Services and Engineering divisions. Stark’s Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS) Division produces the ArrowLite – a small UAS system - and supports the Army’s Hunter MQ-5B UAS. Stark’s Sensors Division assembles and repairs payloads and variants used on the Army RQ-7 Shadow UAS.