Jerusalem, Nov 07: A US-Israeli team has successfully tested the latest model in patriot anti-missile missiles, military sources said today, as Israel braces for a possible conflict with Iraq. The test was carried out yesterday in the Negev desert in southern Israel and had long been scheduled to take place, the sources said.
During the 1991 Gulf war to drive Iraqi forces out of Kuwait, Israel was pounded by dozens of scud missiles from Iraq, which killed two people and injured hundreds, despite the presence of earlier model patriot batteries.

Patriot missiles have been deployed to protect Israel's nuclear plant at Dimona in the Negev. Israel's own brand of anti-missile missiles, the arrow, developed in conjunction with the US military, have been deployed near Tel Aviv to protected the densely populated coastal plane.
Bureau Report