Israel's extensive defense system
Israel's multi-tiered defense system, combined with US support and state-of-the-art fighter aircraft, makes it very difficult for missiles to reach their intended targets.
US-supplied defense support
THAAD System
Range: 200km (124 miles)
Max altitude: 150km (93 miles)
Transportable defensive weapon system that intercepts ballistic missiles within the atmosphere and in space.
SM-3
Part of the US AEGIS missile defense system. All three variants of this interceptor system are designed to operate in the vacuum of space.
Block IB
Block IA
Range:
Max altitude:
600km (373 miles)
160–250km (100–155 miles)
700km (435 miles)
500km (310 miles)
Block IIA
2,500km (1,553 miles)
1,000km (620 miles)
Range:
Max altitude:
Block IIA
1,000km
THAAD
Block IB
Hubble Telescope
515km (320 miles)
500km
Block IA
Edge of space
100km (62 miles)
Detail
0
500 km
(310 miles)
1,500 km
(932 miles)
2,500 km
(1,553 miles)
Israeli defense systems
150 km
SM-3 Block IA (US)
THAAD (US)
Arrow 3
Arrow 2
50
Iron
Dome
David’s Sling
10
0
100 km
(61 miles)
200 km
(124 miles)
300 km
(186 miles)
The Iron Dome
David’s Sling
Range: 300km (186 miles)
Max altitude: 15km (9.3 miles)
Range: 70km (44 miles)
Max altitude: 10km (6.2 miles)
Defends against ballistic missiles, large-caliber rockets and cruise missiles. The interceptor is a 4.6-meter-long missile which has no warhead, but defeats targets by striking them directly.
Can track up to 1,100 targets.
Has a high-explosive blast- fragmentation warheads to
defend against short-range surface-to-surface rockets.
Can track up to 1,100 targets and is claimed to have a 90% success rate.
Arrow 2
Arrow 3
Range: 100km (61 miles)
Max altitude: 50km (30 miles)
Range: 2,400km (1,491 miles)
Max altitude: 100km (61 miles)
Fragmentation warheads to destroy incoming ballistic missiles.
Intercepts incoming ballistic missiles in space, before they reenter the atmosphere.
US-supplied defense support
THAAD System
Range: 200km (124 miles)
Max altitude: 150km (93 miles)
Transportable defensive weapon system that intercepts ballistic missiles within the atmosphere and in space.
SM-3
Part of the US AEGIS missile defense system. All three variants of this interceptor system are designed to operate in the vacuum of space.
Block IB
Block IA
Range:
Max altitude:
600km (373 miles)
160–250km (100–155 miles)
700km (435 miles)
500km (310 miles)
Block IIA
Range:
Max altitude:
2,500km (1,553 miles)
1,000km (620 miles)
Block IIA
1,000km
THAAD
Block IB
Hubble Telescope
515km (320 miles)
500km
Block IA
Edge of space
100km (62 miles)
Detail
0
500 km
(310 miles)
1,500 km
(932 miles)
2,500 km
(1,553 miles)
Israeli defense systems
150 km
SM-3 Block IA (US)
THAAD (US)
Arrow 3
Arrow 2
50
Iron
Dome
David’s Sling
10
0
100 km
(61 miles)
200 km
(124 miles)
300 km
(186 miles)
The Iron Dome
David’s Sling
Range: 300km (186 miles)
Max altitude: 15km (9.3 miles)
Range: 70km (44 miles)
Max altitude: 10km (6.2 miles)
Defends against ballistic missiles, large-caliber rockets and cruise missiles. The interceptor is a 4.6-meter-long missile which has no warhead, but defeats targets by striking them directly.
Can track up to 1,100 targets.
Has a high-explosive blast- fragmentation warheads to
defend against short-range surface-to-surface rockets.
Can track up to 1,100 targets and is claimed to have a 90% success rate.
Arrow 2
Arrow 3
Range: 100km (61 miles)
Max altitude: 50km (30 miles)
Range: 2,400km (1,491 miles)
Max altitude: 100km (61 miles)
Fragmentation warheads to destroy incoming ballistic missiles.
Intercepts incoming ballistic missiles in space, before they reenter the atmosphere.
US-supplied defense support
SM-3
THAAD System
Part of the US AEGIS missile defense system. All three variants of this interceptor system are designed to operate in the vacuum of space.
Range: 200km (124 miles)
Max altitude: 150km (93 miles)
Transportable defensive weapon system that intercepts ballistic missiles within the atmosphere and in space.
Block IB
Block IIA
Block IA
Range:
Max altitude:
600km (373 miles)
160–250km (100–155 miles)
700km (435 miles)
500km (310 miles)
2,500km (1,553 miles)
1,000km (620 miles)
Block IIA
1,000km
Block IB
Hubble Telescope
515km (320 miles)
500km
International Space Station
400km (250 miles)
Edge of space
100km (62 miles)
THAAD
Block IA
Detail
0
500 km
(310 miles)
1,000 km
(620 miles)
1,500 km
(932 miles)
2,000 km
(1,240 miles)
2,500 km
(1,553 miles)
Israeli defense systems
150 km
SM-3 Block IA (US)
THAAD (US)
Arrow 3
Arrow 2
50
Iron
Dome
David’s Sling
10
0
100 km
(61 miles)
200 km
(124 miles)
300 km
(186 miles)
400 km
(249 miles)
500 km
(310 miles)
600 km
(372 miles)
The Iron Dome
David’s Sling
Arrow 3
Arrow 2
Range: 300km (186 miles)
Max altitude: 15km (9.3 miles)
Range: 70km (44 miles)
Max altitude: 10km (6.2 miles)
Range: 2,400km (1,491 miles)
Max altitude: 100km (61 miles)
Range: 100km (61 miles)
Max altitude: 50km (30 miles)
Defends against ballistic missiles, large-caliber rockets and cruise missiles. The interceptor is a 4.6-meter-long missile which has no warhead, but defeats targets by striking them directly.
Can track up to 1,100 targets.
Has a high-explosive blast- fragmentation warheads to
defend against short-range surface-to-surface rockets.
Can track up to 1,100 targets and is claimed to have a 90% success rate.
Intercepts incoming ballistic missiles in space, before they reenter the atmosphere.
Fragmentation warheads to destroy incoming ballistic missiles.
Able to intercept missiles in space, with a maximum altitude of approximately 1,000km (1,553 miles)
Edge of space
100km (62 miles)
Arrow 2
Arrow 3
Range: 100km (61 miles)
Max altitude: 50km (30 miles)
Range: 2,400km (1,491 miles)
Max altitude: 100km (61 miles)
Fragmentation warheads to destroy incoming ballistic missiles.
Intercepts incoming ballistic missiles in space, before they reenter the atmosphere.