Israeli Aerospace Industries CEO Boaz Levy: "Decisions made 30 years ago, including ours, proved themselves tonight" "The Arrow was revolutionary at the time, and we proved its ability with the experimental Arrow-1," he says. The Arrow-3, which entered service a decade later, was designed to serve as an additional layer of defense, says Levy.
"Not everyone understood the need to intercept outside the atmosphere, and open the hatch to space," he adds. "It was a crazy, crazy success, the system worked exactly as we wanted," says IAI's CEO, who started his career in the company as a junior engineer in the Arrow system and later managed the project. "We as a company salute the air defense system and the air force for the successful operation of this night," says Levy, who later became chief engineer of Arrow-2 and later manager of the Arrow3 project. 'The Arrow is not a cheap missile, more than a million dollars for one in the case of the arrow-3,' he says, adding that it is really a serious event.