Tel Aviv: Consolidating its defence cooperation with Israel, Morocco will buy Barak MX from Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI). The deal with the Israeli company is part of Morocco’s effort to get advanced weapon systems to be better ready for the conflict with neighbouring Algeria.
Barak-MX is a modular air defence system and is designed to address missile and aircraft threats. It operates both in marine platforms and land, and belongs to the Barak missile family. The BARAK MX system is capable of simple integration with any existing legacy or sensors.
The Barak MX Land Deployable system is capable of simple integration with any existing legacy or new sensors.
All Bark MX Land Deployable components (BMC, Launchers with interceptors and Radars) can be operated from permanent infrastructure or can be truck mounted and deployed to temporal operational sites.
According to IAI, Barak MX’s innovative, software based modular approach offers you exceptional flexibility in operation and power build up and ensures simple adaptation to future threats, making it one of the most powerful, all weather, day & night solutions for today’s most challenging of threats.
IAI’s Barak MX interceptors along with IAI’s complete naval combat suite will provide advanced defence systems to the Israel Navy’s new Sa’ar 6 corvettes. These ships will be used to protect Israel’s exclusive economic zone and strategic facilities that face diversified threats in the marine arena. The BARAK MX system was chosen after it was demonstrated to meet the operational requirements and future challenges faced by the Israeli Navy.
-The writer is an Israel-based freelance journalist. The views expressed are of the writer and do not necessarily reflect the views of Raksha Anirveda
