The $3.5bn system is set to be installed in 2025. Credit: United States Missile Defense Agency/commons.wikimedia.org (Creative Commons).

Israel’s Ministry of Defense is moving forward with the deployment of the Arrow 3 missile interception system on German soil in 2025 and has initiated joint preparations with the German Federal Ministry of Defence.  

A meeting in relation to the preparations took place at Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI), led by Israel Missile Defense Organization director Moshe Patel, within the Israeli Ministry of Defense.

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The meeting has so far included discussions with Israeli defence industries such as IAI’s MLM Division, Elta, Elbit Systems, and Germany’s MBDA. 

The ongoing two-day session is part of the execution of the Arrow 3 sale agreement to Germany. 

Israel, with approval from the US, had agreed to sell the Arrow 3 system to Germany in a $3.5bn deal last year.  

Demand for the missile defence systems extends beyond Germany. In May this year, several countries expressed interest in purchasing the technology. 

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The Arrow system, which includes the Arrow 2 and Arrow 3 interceptors, was developed through collaboration between Israel and the US to counter the threat of long-range ballistic missiles.  

Operational since 2017, Arrow 3 serves as the upper-tier, exo-atmospheric interceptor in Israel’s tiered ballistic missile defence system, providing coverage over a larger defended area. 

Arrow 3 is designed to neutralise long-range threats far from their intended targets, intercepting them outside the atmosphere and closer to their launch sites.  

The system can share the same weapon system components – launchers, command and control, sensors, and other assets – with the lower-tier Arrow 2. 

In November 2022, Israeli Air Defense Array soldiers executed the first-ever operational interception using the Arrow 3 system, neutralising a target launched towards Israel from the Red Sea region. 

The system further demonstrated its capabilities against Iranian missile attacks on 14 April and 1 October this year.