Israeli defense specialist Rafael (Chalet A194, Static A33) is exhibiting a range of the company’s products and solutions at Paris, including the new Spice 250 weapon and a wide range of air defense missiles and control systems. Although it is well known for its missiles and electro-optical sensors, Rafael is involved in the creation of complex systems that bring increasing effectiveness, efficiency and economy to the defense arena.
Rafael has long experience in the air defense world. “We deal with the full hemisphere of air defense,” stated Rafael president and CEO, Vice Admiral (Ret.) Yedidia Yaari. “It’s about intercepting flying objects of all kinds.” The company’s Iron Dome short-range air defense and counter rockets and mortars (C-RAM) system has been operational for Israeli homeland defense since April 2011, and it has been called into action many times, principally to intercept rockets fired from Gaza. Experience from more than two years of operations is being continually fed into ongoing system development, a process that is also applied to other systems, such as the Spyder being displayed here.
