{"id":138142,"date":"2022-04-15T00:09:04","date_gmt":"2022-04-15T05:09:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/04\/israel-successfully-tests-new-laser-missile-defense-system"},"modified":"2022-04-15T00:09:04","modified_gmt":"2022-04-15T05:09:04","slug":"israel-successfully-tests-new-laser-missile-defense-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/04\/israel-successfully-tests-new-laser-missile-defense-system","title":{"rendered":"Israel Successfully Tests New Laser Missile Defense System"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/israel-successfully-tests-new-laser-missile-defense-system.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>JERUSALEM \u2014 Israel\u2019s new laser missile defense system has successfully intercepted mortars, rockets and anti-tank missiles in recent tests, Defense Minister Benny Gantz said Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>The Israeli-made laser system, designed to complement a series of aerial defense systems such as the costly Iron Dome deployed by Israel, will be operational \u201cas soon as possible,\u201d Gantz said.<\/p>\n<p>The goal is to deploy the laser systems around Israel\u2019s borders over the next decade, Gantz added. The tests took place last month in the Negev Desert.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JERUSALEM \u2014 Israel\u2019s new laser missile defense system has successfully intercepted mortars, rockets and anti-tank missiles in recent tests, Defense Minister Benny Gantz said Thursday. The Israeli-made laser system, designed to complement a series of aerial defense systems such as the costly Iron Dome deployed by Israel, will be operational \u201cas soon as possible,\u201d Gantz [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":609,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-138142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-military"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138142","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/609"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=138142"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138142\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=138142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=138142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=138142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}