Category: Missile defense systems

Have you ever thought about how countries develop their national security systems and military tools?

Does every country differ? Who makes all the integration, and how do they do it efficiently and seamlessly?

National defense is one of the evident priorities of a country or territory. Rafael UK knows this by heart; hence the company continues to create innovations to support the UK defense effectively, whether on land, air, or sea. 

Partnership between Rafael UK and UK military 

For two decades now, the UK military has been Rafael UK’s partner in any combat and military needs. We continue to lay out advancements on the latest systems in ISR, warfare, electro-optics, advanced communication, IRS, sense-to-strike, and combat-AI tools. Furthermore, our team integrates these cutting-edge combat solutions on various platforms, allowing a more customized and exclusive national security system. 

Major Works

Some of the works we create include the Drone Dome, Spike NLOS Extractor, boot-mounted navigation system for soldiers, SDR or Software-defined Radio, remote weapon system, and the advanced targeting pod. 

Responsibility 

It’s not just about claiming our quality and cutting-edge technologies; Rafael UK ensures the team responsible for these innovations are experts in various related fields. Most of the employees here finished advanced studies in Engineering and the Sciences. 

Life-saving Innovations 

We can only create life-saving innovations by strengthening the partnerships with our stakeholders. It’s not only people from Rafael UK that make the difference. It’s the commitment to expand industrial partnerships, manufacturing, job creation, and technology transfer. As a result, we can strengthen the UK supply chain to efficiently support the evolving needs of the UK’s national security. 

Final Thoughts

More importantly, we help nurture young people who excel in science and technology through our community outreach works with volunteers. Rafael UK also designs tutorials and special accessories for youth with physical and mental disabilities.

The Iron Dome by RAFAEL is the most deployed missile defense system in the world. It has a success rate in excess of 90% and has over two thousand interceptions.

The RAFAEL Iron Dome system can protect forces, strategic assets, urban and populated areas, and the FOB (Forward Operating Base), from a huge variety of aerial and indirect attacks and threats. 

Threats protected against included Cruise Missiles, C-RAM, PGM (Precise Guided Missile), ABT (Air Breathing Threats), dense salvos, and UAVs (Unmanned Aerial Vehicles). 

This defense system is combat-proven. The Iron Dome is an intelligent system capable of detecting and assessing threats before intercepting them with excellent accuracy. It effectively counters aircraft, UAVs, mortars, artillery shells, short to medium-range rockets, and helicopters at a very short range. 

This cost-effective interceptor is capable of functioning alone as a stand-alone system or it can be included as a layer of a multi-layer Air Defense System. It can be integrated into other V-SHORAD systems like the MML (Multi-Mission Launcher) used by the U.S. Army.

No matter the time of day or the weather, the Iron Dome works just as well with its quick reaction time. It can cope with fog, low clouds, dust storms, and rain with ease. 

The Iron Dome has an innovative design. It has all of its components on a single truck with a 6×6 truck chassis. It has 10 Iron Dome interceptors, a BMC (Battle Management & Control) operating system, and a radar. All interceptors are sealed in ready-to-launch canisters in groups on the Iron Dome’s turret. 

All in all, the Iron Dome system provides selective, robust defense. Capable of discriminating between threats, it deals with threats that are headed towards protected areas while leaving those that don’t pose a risk. It is, therefore, a good investment that limits unnecessary launches and reduces costs.