Germany Deploys Israeli-Made Arrow 3 to Close Air Defense Gap
As welcome as the Israeli-made air defense system certainly is, it exposes Germany’s military unpreparedness in the wake of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
Less than three weeks after Germany lifted a partial weapons embargo on Israel, the country has activated the Israeli-made Arrow air defense system.
The system, jointly funded and produced by Israel and the U.S., is set to close the gap in Germany’s air defenses amid increased aerial incursions in European airspace by Russia in recent months. “Germany on Wednesday inaugurated the first elements of the sophisticated Arrow 3 missile defense system, which it is buying from Israel as it moves to strengthen its air defenses following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine,” the Associated Press reported.
Germany deployed its new Arrow air defense system to detect and intercept incoming ballistic missiles, including Russia's Oreshnik.
Developed by Israel Aerospace Industries with US support, Arrow is the upper layer of Israel's missile shield. It's the system's first deployment… pic.twitter.com/4J68qWmsFU
— DW News (@dwnews) December 3, 2025
The system, manufactured by the Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) in collaboration with Boeing and the U.S. Missile Defense Agency (MDA), is capable of providing long-range early warning and destroying ballistic missiles at altitudes as high as the stratosphere.
“Arrow 3’s interceptor missiles reportedly have a flight range of 2,400 kilometers [1,491 miles] and an operating ceiling of 100 km [62 miles],” the U.S. weekly Defense News noted. “They intercept incoming ballistic missiles during their travel time through space, a capability proven effective on several occasions in the Middle East.”
The news agency Reuters reported the deployment of Arrow 3:
Germany on Wednesday became the first European nation to deploy the Arrow air defence system, built to intercept intermediate-range ballistic missiles such as Russia’s Oreshnik, as it seeks to counter what it sees as a growing threat from Moscow.
The system, developed by Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) in cooperation with the U.S. Missile Defence Agency, is used as the upper layer of Israel’s missile defences, together with the Iron Dome, which takes out short-range threats.
“Who could have imagined that only 80 years after the liberation of Auschwitz, the Jewish state, through the technologies it develops, would help defend not only Germany but all of Europe,” Israel’s ambassador to Germany, Ron Prosor said. (…)
Operating at altitudes above 100 kilometres (62 miles), outside the earth’s atmosphere, and with a range of 2,400 kilometres, the stationary system complements shorter-range air defences such as Patriot and IRIS-T which are mounted on trucks.
It is worth noting that German Chancellor Friedrich Merz’s government in August 2025 suspended the export of crucial arms and weapon components to Israel while the Jewish state was in the midst of an existential war with the terrorist group Hamas in Gaza. Israel faced a multifront onslaught from Iran and its proxy forces, trying to encircle it.
Despite the lifting of the weapons ban, the issue of reliable weapons supply isn’t out of the woods. The German government’s spokesperson, Stefan Kornelius, declared last month that Berlin will be “returning to examining on a case-by-case basis the export of weapons and will react to further developments.”
80 years after the Holocaust, the State of Israel is delivering the Arrow 3 missile defense system to Germany. The same Germany that recently imposed an arms embargo on Israel is now turning to us for protection. pic.twitter.com/lLsHs13D2q
— daniel hanuka📟✌️ (@LionsOfZion_ORG) December 2, 2025
Welcome, as the Israeli-made air defense system certainly is, it exposes Germany’s military unpreparedness in the wake of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. For decades, Berlin ignored Washington’s pleas to spend its fair share on European defense. President Donald Trump’s repeated calls for raising military spending were met with mockery and ridicule from top government ministers and officials.
When Russia, in the spring of 2022, unleashed its invasion of Ukraine, German politicians and military planners were caught with their Panzer down. In February 2022, Germany’s senior-most army officer, Lt. Gen. Alfons Mais, confessed that the once-proud Bundeswehr was now “more or less bare” before the Russian Bear.
“The options that we can offer the politicians to support the alliance are extremely limited. We all saw it coming and were not able to get through with our arguments,” the then Chief of the German Army, Mais, lamented. “This does not feel good! I am pissed off!”
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This bothers me. Yes Israel needs the capital and yes Israel gets its submarines and surface ships from Germany but to defend it after its just lifted its weapons embargo? Nah. Let them drift in the wind a bit. They need to learn who their friends are and who they aren’t.
This is nice. Now, Deutschland, how about getting your country back on track and helping make Europe secure again?
Also, imagine how many armament factories you could build in Gaza if it were populated with decent human beings interested in freedom? Israel as the Armorer of Democracy?
The fact that Germany and other European countries put an arms embargo on Israel, while it was defending itself against Arab Muslim terrorists’/thugs’ genocidal attacks and predations, is evil and despicable.
No Israeli military technology should be given or sold to Germany, which wretched country is apparently is happy to ally itself with genocidal Islamofascism and to aid the genocidal ambitions of Arab Muslim terrorists.
Göring and Göbels spinning in their graves.
Is Germany still using “Deutschesland Uber Alles” as its national anthem?
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