Israelis To Offer US Long-Range Naval Strike Missile: Sea Breakerhttps://breakingdefense.com/2021/07/israelis-to-offer-us-long-range-naval-strike-missile-sea-breaker/TEL AVIV: Israeli company Rafael hopes to manufacture a new long-range, sea-based missile, the Sea Breaker, in the US with its American partners for use on two US Navy vessels – the operational littoral combat ships (LCS) and the planned Unmanned Surface Vessels (USV).
Israeli defense experts, who talked with BD on condition of anonymity, said that the new missile will probably be offered as the main weapon system for both vessels. The LCS are currently equipped with the Norwegian made Naval Strike Missile. The acquisition of USVs are planned as part of the effort to shift the Navy to a more distributed fleet architecture.
The Rafael Sea Breaker is a fifth-generation long-range, autonomous, precision-guided missile system, enabling significant attack performance against a variety of high-value maritime and land targets.
Rafael says that the Sea Breaker provides surgical, pinpoint precision strikes from stand-off ranges of up to 300 km. ...
The games played against Israel by France and Jimmy Carter "persuaded" Israel to develop their own weapons industry. This is probably among the latest fruit of that long-term effort.
