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                     Israel Line 
                     Friday, February 12, 1999
ARROW 2 TO BE LINKED TO U.S. RADAR DETECTION

   The United States and Israel are working out ways to share real-time
information on missile defense and link the Arrow 2 anti-ballistic missile
to U.S. radar systems, a U.S. general said on Thursday, THE JERUSALEM POST
reported.
  Brig. Gen. Daniel L. Montgomery, the program executive officer for the
U.S. Army's Air and Missile Defense, said during a routine inspection of the
Arrow 2 missile project that Israel and the U.S. envision interoperability
between Israel's Arrow 2 defenses and U.S. units in the area.
  Montgomery said that a team is working on developing an electronic
translation interface known as the Arrow Link 16 upgrade capability.  He
added that Israel and the U.S. are also working closely to link Arrow 2 with
Patriot anti-ballistic missile systems so that any batteries deployed in the
region would be able to share data.
  "I am very impressed with the Israeli effort," Montgomery said.  "They are
the one nation which has really stepped out in its effort to develop the
tactical missile shield.  Every [other] nation is always reluctant to
provide technical work they do, but there is great sharing between us and
Israel."
  The next and potentially final, if successful, test of the solid-fuel
Arrow 2 is scheduled for July.  The missile should be deployed in a limited
operational capacity by late this year or early 2000.  When this happens,
Israel will be the only country with anti-ballistic missile capacity.
  HA'ARETZ reported that the U.S. Defense Department has updated a request
for sale of aircraft to Israel.  Congress has been asked to approve sale of
110 F-16 I jets to the Israel Air Force, an additional 50 jets to a prior
request submitted by Israel last summer.
  Israel is alternately considering the purchase of 40 F-15 I aircraft
instead of its initial request of 30.  A third option is a package which
would include both F-15 I and F-16 I aircraft.  The IAF will decide in two
months which planes to buy and in what quantity.