Israel seeks 'strategic reach' for navy | UPI.com

HAIFA, Israel, Aug. 8 (UPI) -- Israel seeks to build up its navy, partly to counter the Iranian ballistic missile threat, with missile-firing submarines and two other warships.

Israel's military planners said the country will purchase three more missile-firing submarines from Germany and build two corvettes that could be armed with the first naval version of the Arrow anti-missile system.
The planners say that the navy, long the Cinderella of the Jewish state's armed forces, must have strategic reach to increase the country's deterrence capabilities against Iran. Read more »