A serious breakthrough for the US Marine Corps (USMC) integration of RAFAEL’s Iron Dome floor launcher and Tamir interceptor missile into Marine Corps’ Medium-Vary Intercept Functionality (MRIC) Prototype with the USMC G/ATOR Radar and CAC2S Battle Administration System. The Marine Corps’ Medium-Vary Intercept Functionality (MRIC) prototype efficiently hit a number of simultaneously-launched cruise missile consultant targets in the course of the live-fire check on the White Sands Missile Vary in New Mexico June 30, 2022. The MRIC prototype gives Marine Corps level protection in an expeditionary bundle. The system is only one of a number of initiatives crucial to Drive Design 2030, addressing an emergent functionality hole for the Marine Corps. Program Govt Officer Land System’s Floor-Primarily based Air Protection program oversees the system.

The U.S. Marine Corps performed live-fire check for its MRIC prototype on the White Sands Missile Vary in New Mexico. (Photograph by Rafael Superior Protection Programs Ltd.)

Brigadier Common (Res.) Pinhas Yungman, Govt Vice President and Head of RAFAEL’s Air Protection Programs Directorate: “As soon as once more, RAFAEL’s techniques have confirmed that they’re able to seamless, optimized integration with different protection techniques. The Marines live-fire check demonstrated a profitable mixture of an Iron Dome floor launcher, Tamir interceptor with the Marines’ radar system and battle administration system. This is a vital and vital message for RAFAEL, for the Marines and the opposite prospects in the USA and within the worldwide market.”

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“This demonstration proves that we do now have a related functionality,” mentioned Don Kelley, program supervisor for GBAD at PEO Land Programs, instantly following the profitable check.

Head of the IMDO within the Ministry of Protection, Mr. Moshe Patel: “This check has confirmed the Iron Dome Tamir Interceptor and related floor parts might be built-in rapidly and effectively in any related protection structure and intercept varied aerial threats efficiently in advanced and superior situations. We sit up for additional partnerships with the US Armed Forces on Air and Missile Protection.”

US Marine Corps Successfully Tests Medium Range Intercept Capability (MRIC) Prototype
The MRIC prototype is the Marine Corps’ proposed new counter-cruise missile functionality. In the course of the check, the Medium Vary Intercept Functionality (MRIC) prototype efficiently hit a number of simultaneously-launched cruise missile targets.(Photograph by U.S. Military)

In the course of the U.S. Marine Corps occasion, MRIC engaged targets consultant of cruise missile threats. The check examined MRIC’s integration capabilities with the US Marine Corps’ AN/TPS-80 Floor/Air Job Oriented Radar, Widespread Aviation Command and Management System, and parts of the Iron Dome Weapon System, together with the Tamir interceptor. MRIC is designed is to defeat cruise missile threats and different manned and unmanned aerial threats for fastened and operationally semi-fixed websites. A reside hearth check on the White Sands Missile Vary in New Mexico proved:
USMC has Iron Dome protection capabilities
Iron Dome was efficiently built-in into USMC Structure
The system carried out precisely as was predicted by a USMC simulation previous to the check itself.

Live fire of the Medium Range Interceptor Capability with the US Marine Corps’ AN/TPS-80 Ground/Air Task Oriented Radar, Common Aviation Command and Control System, and components of the Iron Dome Weapon System, including the Tamir interceptor. (Photo: U.S. Marine Corps)
Dwell hearth of the Medium Vary Interceptor Functionality (MRIC) with the US Marine Corps’ AN/TPS-80 Floor/Air Job Oriented Radar, Widespread Aviation Command and Management System, and parts of the Iron Dome Weapon System. (Photograph: U.S. Marine Corps)