Can you post some details on Aster 30 and TBM intercept tests?

 Thanks in advance!""

Well , there is nothing I have that you cannot find on the Net .
You could start with the official website :
h*tp://www.mbda-systems.com/mbda/site/FO/scripts/siteFO_contenu.php?lang=EN&noeu_id=88

The problem is that some posters will try to counter every word I say just for the sake of it , Herald being a very good exemple .
I sincerly believe that ASTER SAM/T is the best system out there , not because I am French but because the technology involved is still unmatched .
Arrow looks the business too , but I don 't know much about that system .
Patriot , well , it 's half baked .
SM-3 is a strong and very good contender .

Israel wants something to counter any possible BM threat from Iran . They might well have a problem , with or without ASTER .
They need a hit-to-kill capability to make sure that the warhead gets destroyed ~ASTER can do that~ but if it is a biological warhead it wouldn 't help . It could even make things worse as the destroyed warhead ~even in high altitude~ will spread its poison all over the place .

It is a big problem ...

Cheers .

They need a hit-to-kill
capability to make sure that the warhead gets destroyed ~ASTER can do
that~ but if it is a biological warhead it wouldn 't help . It could
even make things worse as the destroyed warhead ~even in high altitude~
will spread its poison all over the place .

I am not an expert in chem/bio warfare but it seems to me the higher the altitude intercept (as possibly achieved by the SM3), the greater the dispersal of the agent and thus lessen the chance that the WMD would cause a great number of casualties. Obvioussly. the minimum requirement would be the break-up of the warhead.

 

Your immune system can fight off some anthrax spores, just not thousands and thousands all at once.  People who work with animals are exposed to low levels all the time.  I could see chemcial weapons posing a bit more of a risk but I do not think that fatalities would be involved.