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Missile Test
Raises Doubts

Tel Aviv (JTA) — Israel's
Arrow anti-missile missile
project, financed largely by
the United States, seems in
danger of fading away like
much of the controversial
U.S. "Star Wars" program of
the 1980s, of which it is an
offshoot.
The third test launch of
the Hetz (Hebrew for arrow),
was carried out from the
deck of a ship last week.
Despite tight secrecy,
enough details were leaked
to U.S. military journals to
reveal it was a failure.
That was the third strike
against the Arrow, designed
and manufactured by the
government-owned Israel
Aircraft Industries for the
purpose of protecting Israel
from attack by long-range
ballistic missiles.
U.S. funding for the project
to date amounts to some
$440 million.
The first test, from a land-
based launch site nearly two
years ago, was pronounced a
success by IAI, even though
the radar-tracking system
operated by the Israeli air
force malfunctioned.
The second test, six mon-
ths ago, was seaborne. It
failed because part of the
navigation system burned
out and the onboard com-
puter malfunctioned.
Why the latest test fizzled
was not disclosed. The
Arrow's designers said such
a complex system would in-
evitably have "teething
troubles."
But the U.S. defense estab-
lishment admits having se-
cond thoughts about the
Arrow — and about the en-
tire "Star Wars" system, of-
ficially known as the Strate-
gic Defense Initiative, which
former President Ronald
Reagan sold to the American
public as an impregnable
space-based defense against
nuclear attack.
Nevertheless, Israel is still
vitally interested in a mis-
sile defense system, espe-
cially after coming under at-
tack by Iraqi Scud missiles
during the Persian Gulf War
last winter.
The much hyped anti-
missile Patriot batteries
provided Israel by the
United States and Germany
have since been disclosed as
only partially effective, at
best.
The Israel Defense Force,
in fact, has just published a
critique of the Patriots
which casts doubt on their
ability to intercept and
destroy the relatively un-
sophisticated Scuds.

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