{"id":5758,"date":"2018-08-15T03:41:36","date_gmt":"2018-08-15T03:41:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/box5917.temp.domains\/~iriacom\/\/news\/?p=5758"},"modified":"2018-08-25T04:07:25","modified_gmt":"2018-08-25T04:07:25","slug":"israel-navy-to-be-equipped-with-barak-8-missile-defense-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/israel-navy-to-be-equipped-with-barak-8-missile-defense-system\/","title":{"rendered":"Israel&#8217;s Navy to be equipped with Barak-8 missile defense systems"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Israeli Navy to procure Barak 8 missile defense system, jointly developed by India, Israel<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Israeli Navy\u2019s Sa\u2019ar-6 corvettes will be equipped with advanced defense systems after reaching an agreement with\u00a0Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI).<\/p>\n<p>The Barak 8a defense systems will be used to protect Israel\u2019s exclusive economic zone and strategic facilities that face diversified threats in the marine region.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Barak-8 system was chosen after it was demonstrated to meet the operational requirements and future challenges faced by the Navy,&#8221; the company said.<\/p>\n<p>The contract was reached by the Navy, Directorate of Defense Research and Development (DDR&amp;D) and the procurement administration in Israel\u2019s Ministry of Defense.<\/p>\n<p>The Barak 8 missile defense system has been co-developed by Israel&#8217;s state-owned research and development bodies and the navies of India and Israel. The two countries have evenly spent the $350 million on the development of the system.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Barak-8 is one of IAI&#8217;s leading systems and a growth engine for IAI in sales to its customers. The new deal adds to several Barak-8 contracts entered over the past few years with total value of more than USD 5 billion, which is another feather in the system&#8217;s glorious cap,&#8221; said IAI&#8217;s CEO and President Joseph Weiss.<\/p>\n<p>Boaz Levi, Executive Vice President and General Manager of Systems, Missiles and Space Group at IAI called the system &#8220;a proud member of the exclusive club that hosts Israel&#8217;s most successful global military developments&#8221;.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;The procurement of Barak-8 System for the Sa&#8217;ar-6 corvettes will expand the operational capabilities of the Israeli navy, including the defense of Israel&#8217;s territorial and exclusive economic zone.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;With land and naval modules, the system provides a complete response to a wide range of threats and is developed to work with other systems,&#8221; Levi said.<\/p>\n<p>Barak-8 is an operational air &amp; missile defense system used by the Israeli navy as well as by India\u2019s navy and air forces. It gives broad aerial and point defense against a wide range of threats to the marine arena from the air, the sea or the land.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Israeli Navy to procure Barak 8 missile defense system, jointly developed by India, Israel Israeli Navy\u2019s Sa\u2019ar-6 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5760,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"Israel's Navy to be equipped with Barak-8 missile defense systems, , jointly developed by India, Israel","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[44,1],"tags":[6,70,26,356,31,90],"class_list":["post-5758","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middle-east","category-news","tag-defense","tag-india","tag-israel","tag-middle-east","tag-missile","tag-navy"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Israel-Navy.jpg?fit=690%2C370&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7jJWb-1uS","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5758","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5758"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5758\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5761,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5758\/revisions\/5761"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5760"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}