JERUSALEM - Israel recently completed a series of live-fire tests on upgrades to the David’s Sling defense system, the Israeli Defense Ministry announced Monday.

The tests included simulating future threats, enhancing the system’s capabilities and improving its capacity to face the IDF’s various combat arenas.

Trials were carried out by the Israeli Missile Defense Organization in cooperation with the U.S. Missile Defense Agency. The Israeli defense company Rafael Advanced Systems served as the primary contractor, with the subcontractor being Raytheon Missile Systems.

Israel mentioned in its announcement that “the tests represent another breakthrough in upgrading the system, which has already demonstrated high operational capabilities during the Iron Swords War and Operation Rising Lion,

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