Post by Salem6 on Mar 21, 2007 6:26:46 GMT
TEL AVIV, Israel, March 19 (UPI) -- U.S. and Israeli military forces are winding up joint exercises involving anti-missile defenses.
Juniper Cobra 2007, which ends Tuesday, has been mainly computer simulation testing response time, command-and-control, and communications in defending Israel against a missile attack.
Taking part were the U.S. Army's 69th Air Defense Artillery Brigade and the Israeli Air Force's Air Defense Artillery Brigade, Ha'artetz reported on Sunday.
The tests involved Israeli's Arrow anti-ballistic missile and its U.S.-made Patriot PAC-2. U.S. forces have also been testing the capabilities of the PAC-3 system.
No firing of missiles has reportedly been involved because "of constraints associated with last summer's Lebanon war and U.S. deployments," the report said.
Ha'artez quoted an Israeli defense official as saying live-fire interoperability exercises would resume in Juniper Cobra 2009.
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