Ukrainian troops are being trained in Poland to operate an early attack warning radar system supplied by Israel.
Ukrainian state news agency Ukrinform reported that Israeli Foreign Minister Eli Cohen officially announced this at a press conference held in Vienna, revealing that the armed forces of the two sides are cooperating to deploy a new electronic warfare radar system to protect cities from missile attacks from Russia.
The system is capable of detecting missiles and drones and tracking their trajectories, thereby activating airborne sirens more quickly in areas at risk of becoming targets of attack in a war with Russia.
Earlier, Ukrainian Ambassador to Israel, Yevhen Korniichuk, also said that the new radar is being deployed as a trial, initially covering the city of Kiev and will be expanded to other areas if effective.
Korniichuk stressed that this system, which has been successfully used by Israel for a long time, called Red Color (Tzeva Adom), has been fine-tuned to suit Ukraine's needs.
Accordingly, this is a local warning radar system that can detect missiles and drones, using algorithms to calculate the approximate time and location of impact similar to the way the “Iron Dome” works. It provides a signal that tells people how much time they have to find shelter.
Effectiveness?
The Iron Dome system, developed by the United States and Israel, is designed to defend against rockets and artillery shells fired from a distance of 155 miles (250 km). Each battery has three to four launchers with a capacity of up to 20 SAM interceptors each.
Israel says the system has a 90 percent success rate and is one of the most effective missile defense systems in the world . SAMs are also effective against drones, but face challenges with swarming cheap drones.
According to defense contractor Rafael, the development partner of “Iron Dome” with the US Raytheon, said: “This is a multi-mission combat system that has been proven to detect, evaluate and intercept incoming targets such as: C-RAM (rockets, artillery shells, mortars), cruise missiles, guided missiles (PGM) as well as other airborne threats”.
The Iron Dome consists of three main parts: a complex radar that detects incoming threats. A control system developed by Israel's mPrest, which takes information from the radar and analyzes it in real time, predicts flight trajectories, and analyzes the data and sends it to the firing team. The "Iron Dome" can use precision-guided missiles (Tamir) or conventional missiles. When deployed, the system is capable of covering an area of 60 square miles, equivalent to 155 square kilometers, so it is suitable for local protection of a certain area.
Tamir missiles travel at subsonic speeds, are equipped with a series of advanced sensors such as GPS, electro-optical sensors, and fins that help self-adjust flight direction and use a "fuse warhead" to explode near the incoming target, instead of actually hitting the target.
However, the system is not equipped to deal with threats from cruise missiles or hypersonic missiles, due to the large size, high speed and high angle of these warheads.
(According to EurAsian Times)
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