{"id":198752,"date":"2024-11-03T15:26:41","date_gmt":"2024-11-03T21:26:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/11\/israel-plans-to-use-lasers-to-shoot-down-incoming-missiles"},"modified":"2024-11-03T15:26:41","modified_gmt":"2024-11-03T21:26:41","slug":"israel-plans-to-use-lasers-to-shoot-down-incoming-missiles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/11\/israel-plans-to-use-lasers-to-shoot-down-incoming-missiles","title":{"rendered":"Israel plans to use lasers to shoot down incoming missiles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/israel-plans-to-use-lasers-to-shoot-down-incoming-missiles.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Israel expects its \u201cIron Beam\u201d laser defense system to be operational within one year, saying it will bring \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Israel_MOD\/status\/1850945386913157284\" target=\"_blank\">a new era of warfare<\/a>\u201d as it engages in a war of drones and missiles with Iran and its regional partners.<\/p>\n<p>The Jewish state spent more than $500 million on deals this week with Israeli developers Rafael Advanced Defense Systems, architect of Israel\u2019s Iron Dome, and Elbit Systems to expand production of the shield. Dubbed the Iron Beam, the shield aims to use high-power lasers to counter an array of projectiles, including missiles, drones, rockets and mortars, Israel\u2019s defense ministry <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Israel_MOD\/status\/1850945386913157284\" target=\"_blank\">said this week.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt heralds the beginning of a new era in warfare,\u201d Eyal Zamir, director general of the defense ministry, said in a statement this week. \u201cThe initial capability of the ground-based laser system\u2026 is expected to enter operational service within one year,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Israel expects its \u201cIron Beam\u201d laser defense system to be operational within one year, saying it will bring \u201ca new era of warfare\u201d as it engages in a war of drones and missiles with Iran and its regional partners. The Jewish state spent more than $500 million on deals this week with Israeli developers Rafael [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":359,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1488,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-198752","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-drones","category-military"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198752","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\/359"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=198752"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198752\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}