(Globes) Danny Zaken - Brig.-Gen. Eyal Harel, head of the IDF General Staff Planning Division, said in an interview that Israel is developing a powerful laser system that can even protect Israel against Iran. The Ministry of Defense, the Israel Air Force, and Elbit Systems recently completed a series of trials with a laser installation capable of destroying rockets, drones, and other threats. The system is expected to be operational in a little over three years, with a cost of a few dollars per interception, compared with an Iron Dome interception that costs $50,000. "Final testing should take place early this year. We succeeded in getting somewhere no one else in the world has managed to reach. As soon as the final trial succeeds, we'll enter into serial production of the laser systems, which within two years will put us in a different operating point, certainly relative to Gaza."
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