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Source: https://www.tabletmag.com/jewish-news-and-politics/287446/innovations-in-us-israel-security-alliance
Innovations in the U.S.-Israel Security Alliance
(Tablet) Seth Frantzman - Since the 1980s, Israel has become a key supplier of advanced military technology to Washington. Israel provided exterior armor for American military vehicles in Iraq and Afghanistan that saved the lives of U.S. troops attacked by IEDs, said former U.S. ambassador Dan Shapiro. "There is a range of technologies where things were brought to market faster than in the U.S. or with no U.S. counterpart," says Shapiro. In February 2019 the U.S. army acquired several Iron Dome batteries to fill an immediate need for shorter-range aerial defense. The Trophy defensive system employed by U.S. tanks to block enemy antitank missiles was pioneered in Israel.