Since the 1960s, there have been claims that Israel has been building and upgrading a large array of ballistic missiles capable of carrying nuclear weapons. • The rocket engine experiment conducted today raises the Jewish state's Jericho plan and capabilities in the long-range missile.

Since the 1960s, media and foreign experts have consistently and consistently reported that Israel is developing and upgrading a long-range Lithuanian missile program capable of carrying a nuclear warhead.

Today's rocket engine experiment once again raised the rumor in the international media and brought to the head the alleged operational capabilities of the Jewish state's ballistic missile system. Israel itself, importantly, has never provided any information about the existence of ballistic missiles in its possession.

The launch of the ballistic missile program, according to foreign sources, in a development contract signed between the Israeli aerospace industry and French dasult company for the development of a ballistic missile capable of carrying nuclear warheads, which Israel is reportedly working on.

According to publications abroad, the first missile in the "Jericho" series, "Jericho 1", in 1963. Twelve missiles were delivered from cooperation with France before France declared arms embargo against Israel and missile production was entirely carried out in Israel. Israel invested over $ 1 billion in the project , A huge sum in Israel at the time, without foreign media reporting that Israel had even built a special underground system for holding and launching missiles between Tel Aviv and Jerusalem.

The missile project was exposed after news leaked from South Africa about cooperation between Israel and the apartheid regime in which Israelis allowed Pretoria to build copies of Jericho missiles.

The clear signal to the US

In 1976, media outlets in France claimed that Israel launched the new ballistic missile model, Jericho 2, a long-range two-stage ballistic missile. Only a decade later, real-life experiments with the missile began, and it came in, according to foreign experts, for use in the early 1990s. The advanced missile also developed a civilian version designed to carry satellites into space and was named "Comet".

Although Israel has never operationally used the two ballistic missiles it developed during the Gulf War, US officials claimed that Israel had exposed the missiles and allowed Americans to shoot at a satellite, a clear signal that Israel would not continue to suffer the Scuds firing against it and that it could respond if the United States did not intervene. The threat probably sounded good in Washington.

Israeli Jericho missile // Photo: Wikipedia

The third generation of Israeli ballistic missiles is even more mysterious than its predecessors and very few reports about it have appeared in the media. According to some reports, the Jericho 3 is an intercontinental ballistic missile, the highest level of missile range, and capable of carrying a large nuclear warhead for a tremendous distance.

"Can reach every corner of the planet"

In 2008, after reports of a successful missile experiment, a quote was attributed to an Israeli expert who fired industrial taps that said: "Everyone needs to do the math now. We can reach every corner of the planet with ballistic missiles."

According to foreign publications, Israel is developing "Jericho 4", a new model of the long-range ballistic missile. The Wisconsin Project, which oversees nuclear weapons heads around the world, claims that Israel has completed the 4,800-km ballistic missile "Jericho 3". The report also claims it is a three-stage missile. As mentioned, Israel has moved on to developing the next generation.