Writing at Commentary, Council on Foreign Relations fellow Max Boot points out that the big story out of Israel yesterday was the IDF's Trophy active-protection system in action on the Gaza border. The system uses radar to detect a missile launch and fires projectiles to halt incoming rockets.
And while it didn't make the U.S. news, there's an obvious benefit to Americans, according to Boot.
This is a development that will also be of interest to the U.S. armed forces. So far, our forces have not confronted much of a missile threat in Afghanistan or Iraq; most of our vehicles have been lost to IEDs, not missiles. But given how cheap and plentiful various sorts of man-launched rockets are, it is inevitable that before long they will be used by our enemies. When that happens, we may find ourselves grateful once again for our alliance with Israel, which has developed technology — and not for the first time — that can be of such great benefit to the U.S. armed forces.
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