Germany looks to buy Israeli or US missile defence system

Israeli soldiers walk near an Israeli Irone Dome defence system (L) on 25 February, 2016 [AFP/Gil Cohen-Magen/Getty]
Berlin is considering buying a missile defence system from Israel or the United States to defend against threats, including Russian Iskander missiles in Kaliningrad, German weekly Welt am Sonntag reported on Saturday. The Iskander missiles can reach almost all of Western Europe and there is no missile shield in place to protect against this threat, Germany's Chief of Defence, Eberhard Zorn, told Welt am Sonntag in an interview published on Saturday. "The Israelis and the Americans possess such systems. Which one do we prefer? Will we manage to establish an overall (missile defence) system in NATO? These are the questions we need to answer now," Zorn said. He did not specify the names of the systems, but was most likely […]

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