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Israel activated a brand new aerial protection system – dubbed “Barak Magen,” that means “lightning defend” – for the primary time on Sunday evening, saying it intercepted and destroyed a number of Iranian drones.
The Israeli Navy intercepted eight Iranian drones utilizing the “Barak Magen” and its long-range air protection (LRAD) interceptor, which have been launched from an Israeli navy Sa’ar 6 missile ship, the Israel Protection Forces (IDF) stated in an announcement.
John Hannah, senior fellow at The Jewish Institute for Nationwide Safety of America (JINSA) and the co-author of a report published earlier this month on Israel’s protection in opposition to two huge Iranian missile assaults in 2024, instructed Fox Information Digital on Monday that the air protection system “considerably enhances” the air and missile protection structure of Israel’s navy.
“The Barak Magen is solely one other arrow within the increasing quiver of Israel’s extremely subtle and more and more various multi-tiered missile protection structure – which was already, by leaps and bounds, probably the most superior and skilled air protection system fielded by any nation on this planet,” Hannah stated.
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The “Barak Magen” interceptors have been launched from an Israeli navy Sa’ar 6 missile ship. (Israel Protection Forces)
The system can intercept a “wide selection of threats,” in keeping with the IDF, together with unmanned aerial automobiles (UAVs), cruise missiles, high-trajectory threats and shore-to-sea missiles.
Hannah stated the system not solely gives pressure safety for the Israeli fleet but in addition provides long-distance safety to Israel’s expanding oil and gasoline infrastructure within the japanese Mediterranean, together with crucial infrastructure and inhabitants facilities situated alongside Israel’s shoreline.
“It permits Israel to conduct interceptions at vital distances from the Israeli homeland, each out within the japanese Mediterranean and the Pink Sea, and thereby provides critically essential strategic depth when defending Israel’s tiny geographic space,” he stated.
The IDF stated that the Israeli Navy’s missile ship flotilla has intercepted about 25 UAVs that posed a risk to Israel for the reason that conflict with Iran escalated.
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Israel and Iran traded missile strikes for the fourth day on Monday, with Iran firing a brand new wave of strikes that killed at the least eight folks and wounded dozens extra.
An Israeli assault on the Shahran oil depot on June 15, 2025, in Tehran, Iran. (Stringer/Getty Photographs)
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In the meantime, the Israeli navy claimed it had achieved air superiority above Tehran, warning about 330,000 folks in a central a part of the Iranian capital to evacuate forward of recent strikes.
