THE WAR ZONE
USMC Buying Nearly 2,000 Tamir Interceptors For Its Iron Dome Systems
Joseph Trevithick
August 25, 2023

The U.S. Marine Corps has laid out plans to acquire three batteries worth of Iron Dome systems, including 44 launchers and 1,840 Tamir interceptors. The exact estimated value of this purchase is unknown, but based on publicly available figures the cost of the Tamirs alone could be close to $200 million. The Marines say they want Iron Dome systems primarily to help protect units from cruise missiles, but these systems can also provide defense against drones and rockets and other artillery rounds. The new details about the Marine Corps Iron Dome plans were posted yesterday on the U.S. government’s System for Award Management (SAM) contracting website as part of a notice about future potential sole-source deals with Raytheon. READ MORE

ARUTZ SHEVA Yoram Ettinger: Israel is a mega-billion-dollar battle-tested laboratory for the US A recent mega-billion-dollar increase in the export of Lockheed-Martin’s F-35 combat aircraft is due to the overcoming of a series of pivotal glitches. This was achieved by Lockheed-Martin, as well as by Israel’s air force and aerospace industries, known as the cost-effective and battle-tested laboratory of the US defense and aerospace industries and armed forces. ..The scores of Israeli solutions to the F-35 glitches have been shared with the US manufacturer and the US Air Force, sustaining the F-35 superiority over its global competition; sparing Lockheed-Martin mega-billions of dollars in research and development…