And projectile launched from Yemen has impacted this Sunday on the Ben Gurion International Airport in Tel Avivwhat has meant The first impact of a missile on Israeli soil since the beginning of the offensive in Gaza in January 2023.
This missile has managed to overcome the world’s most effective anti -aircraft system, the famous Israel iron dome. A system that is formed by the most advanced missiles in the United States and the most powerful radars and detection devices of the military panorama.
“It is an integrated air defense systembasically it has the ability to see all the aerial elements that access their territory and knock them down, “he explains Yago Rodríguezdirector of ‘The Political Room’. An integrated system consisting of three layers capable of detecting from medium -range missiles to projectiles that come from outside the atmosphere.
However, that third level, called ‘Arrow 3’, which is in charge of the longer range missiles, has not been able to repel the hutis missile today. The Yemeni group says that it is a hypersonic projectilethat is, it flies several times the speed of light.
last December, The iron dome detected and neutralized a projectile of similar characteristicsbut this Sunday has not been able to intercept it, which makes, for the first time, Israel feels vulnerable to the air attacks of its neighbors.
