On November 16, President of the Hungarian Republic Katalin Novák and Minister of Defense Kristóf Szalay-Bobrovniczky visited the Israeli Iron Dome missile defense system, Hungary Today reports. Minister Szalay-Bobrovniczky said that, among other things, they were shown the combined air defense system that Hungary should study in light of the Polish missile incident on November 15.
It is a less-known fact the Ministry of Defense has ordered an unknown quantity of the Israeli ELTA radars that are a key component of the Iron Dome air defense system, Hungary Today reports, also reporting that the rocket launchers that will be integrated with the radars will not be of Israeli design: instead, Hungary has purchased the Norwegian-US NASAMS system for this purpose, as well as the missiles themselves, i.e. the AMRAAM in the initial phase. At a later stage the European-developed, more advanced Meteor missiles could be deployed with the system, Hungary Today assumes.