Arrow-3

US used double amount of interceptors as Israel during Iran war, officials say - report

The US deployed some 200 Terminal High Altitude Area Defense, or THAAD, interceptors against Iranian missiles targeting Israel, while Israel used fewer than 100 Arrow 3 missiles.

US SOLDIERS stand in the background next to Israeli and American flags during an exercise in Israel.
Screengrab of explosion near Beit Shemesh, May 17, 2026.

Massive explosion in Beit Shemesh area was coordinated test with defense company, officials say

 The Arrow 3 air defense system, used for the first time on November 9, 2023, to intercept a missile fired at Eilat by Iran-backed Houthis in Yemen.

Did Israel risk lives? Debate rages over Israel sending Arrow missiles to Germany mid-Iran war

 Arrow air defense system

Israel approves increased production of Arrow missile interceptors for second time this year


Why Germany’s Arrow 3 purchase is more than military hardware - opinion

Eight decades after the Holocaust, Germany will rely on an Israeli defense system to shield itself from ballistic missile threats. History’s wheel has turned in a way few could have imagined

Flags flutter in front of a radom of the "Arrow Weapon System for Germany" pictured in Annaburg, Germany, December 3, 2025.

Ex-IDF air defense chief: Arrow-3 protecting Germany defies imagination after Holocaust

Ran Kochav recounts to The Jerusalem Post his time as Arrow commander and the technology's role in making history.

People stand in front of the Arrow 3 system during an event of the German Air Force at the Annaburger Heide Air Base in Schoenewalde/Holzdorf, eastern Germany, December 3, 2025

Merz visit highlights new strategic, and strained, Germany-Israel bond - analysis

Notably, Germany opposed various sanctions proposals in the EU. It is one of the few countries Israel can count on to at least abstain from one-sided UN General Assembly resolutions.

Israeli President Isaac Herzog (R) and German Chancellor Friedrich Merz (L) at the President's Residence in Jerusalem, December 6, 2025.

Netanyahu ‘not leaving’ politics for pardon, PM says next to Germany’s Friedrich Merz

Netanyahu also praised the Israel–Germany cooperation in high-tech, AI, and quantum technologies.

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz holds a joint press conference with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem, December 7, 2025   Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu seen in a press conference with German Chancellor Friedrich Merz, in Jerusalem, December 7, 2025

Israel will not annex West Bank soon, Netanyahu assures Germany's Friedrich Merz

Friedrich Merz: Germany believes Israel should have conducted war differently • German chancellor explains imposing, removal of arms embargo

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz holds a joint press conference with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem, December 7, 2025

Germany's Arrow deployment paves way for other European buyers, air defense chief tells 'Post'

German Air Defense Commander Col. Dennis Kruger on if Germany will purchase future iterations of the Arrow system: "I can give you a clear yes to that." 

People stand in front of the Arrow 3 system during an event of the German Air Force at the Annaburger Heide Air Base in Schoenewalde/Holzdorf, eastern Germany, December 3, 2025

Baram to 'Post': Selling Arrow-3 to Germany helps increase IDF missile defense capacity

“When we give the German industry the capability to invest and to make some more Arrow 3 interceptors,  it's not that we would have less of it,” Defense Ministry Director-General Amir Baram said.

The Jerusalem Post's Yonah Jeremy Bob visits Holzdorf Air Force base in Germany, December 3, 2025.

'Post' witnesses blockbuster deployment of Germany's Israeli-made Arrow anti-missile defense

Defense officials have told the Post that, following the Arrow's outstanding performance during the 2023-2025 war, several other countries are interested in purchasing the Arrow.

The Jerusalem Post's Yonah Jeremy Bob visits Holzdorf Air Force base in Germany, December 3, 2025.

Defense Ministry D-G Baram flies to Germany to unveil Israeli-made Arrow missile defense system

The deal, worth $3.6 billion, will mark the first deployment of the Arrow 3 outside Israel. It also represents the end of Germany's temporary weapon sales ban on Israel.

 VISITORS VIEW a model of the Arrow 3 interceptor missile on display at an aerospace conference in Jerusalem.

Germany set to finally deploy Israel's Arrow 3 defense system, which neutralized Iranian missiles

Germany will officially deploy the Israeli-supplied Arrow 3 missile defense system this week, marking its first use outside Israel to counter long-range ballistic missile threats.

 Israel's Arrow 3 interceptor.