The US Missile Defense Agency and the Israeli Missile Defense Organization successfully demonstrated David’s Sling in a series of tests at Yanat Sea Range in Israel.
David’s Sling was planned to be deployed in 2015, but budget shortfalls for infrastructure for deployable missile batteries will delay its operational date to 2017.
The name David’s Sling comes from the biblical story of David and Goliath. It will form one level of Israel’s future multi-tiered missile defense system that Israel is developing, which will also include Arrow 2, Arrow 3, Iron Dome and Iron Beam from as early as 2018.
Prteviously in December 2015, the David’s Sling Weapon System demonstrated its ability to destroy salvos of heavy long-range rockets and short-range ballistic missiles, completing the first block of developmental tests.
According to the Israeli government, David’s Sling will protect areas ‘above the short-range Iron Dome and under the upper-atmospheric Arrow-2, particularly against threats like the Russian 9K720 Iskander tactical ballistic missiles, the Syrian Khaibar-1 302 mm rockets and the Iranian Fateh-110 used by Hezbollah’.
UK Defence??
I got my Government issued sling by post Ron, not got yours yet? Fuxsakes lol