Israel recognizes the failure of the ” David Sling” missile system
The Israeli media reported that the rocket launched by the Israeli missile system “David Sling” yesterday to intercept Syrian missiles missed its target.
Israeli Maariv newspaper and the Israeli media, which been allowed by military observers to disclose this failure, indicated that the fear of “Israel” now is the arrival of the remnants of the missile to the allies (Syrian President Bashar Al Assad – Iran and Russia – who will try to study advanced technologies Developed by “Tel Aviv” and Washington.
In turn, the site of the newspaper “Haaretz” that the operators “David Sling” to destroy the missiles after the rockets, “David Slig” to reach the goal.
For his part, an article by Yoav Zayton on the site of “Yediot Ahranot” that the Syrian missiles weren’t intercepted due to technical issues, not a human error.
Another article by Yoav Limor in “Israel Today” that in his opinion yesterday’s incident was a serious failure of the Israeli army, which requires a thorough investigation, in addition to technological and operational conclusions.
The writer believes that the “David Sling” missile system has not been developed yet for practical use.
The article points out that the “David Sling” was designed to protect against Hezbollah rockets and Iranian long-range missiles.
The media reports that IDF Ministry of War and the “Rafael Group” are conducting an investigation into this incident.
According to Israeli media, the price of one interceptor missile in the “David Sling” system is $ 1 million.
Worth mentioning that, the Israeli army had shot down a Syrian Su-24 and pilot was killed yesterday.
The Syrian Su-24 was on a combat mission on the sites of the ISIS controlled area of Yarmouk valley, while it enters the Syrian occupied Golan heights aerospace, the Israeli army launched two Patriot air defense missiles to shot down the Syrian warplane.
