My personal opinion is that Ballistic Missiles as a threat are over rated, our ability to detect, track and intercept is reaching the level as to make them non viable threat systems. Stealthy, low flying terrain hugging cruise missile however are a diferent story!!!!

It depends on warhead, accuracy and targeting precision. Nevertheless even badly aimed with HE warheads it would cause disruption, whether this would be militarily significant, ie disrupt Israeli mobilisation and deployment, is a different question and probably impossible to answer. I thought Arrow had a useful ABM capability.

The Arrow ABM system is perfectly capable of intercepting any ballistic missile except ICBM's, but it is a hugely expensive weapon that deploys a limited number of interceptors. The idea would thus be to saturate it with massive salvos of long range, heavy artillery rockets, that would make the strategic bombardment of Israeli population centers with non-conventional warheads-tipped IRBM's a definite possibily. Smaller and cheaper interceptors are under development, such as the Barak 8, a joint Rafael-DRDO venture, but these will not be operational at least for a decade. In the event of an all-out ballistic exchange with the Jihad axis, Israel will sustain horrendous damage, even if each and every Arrow hits it's target, and even if some real Aegis/ SM-3 assistance from our friends along our Mediterranean shore is available. The question is therefore, whether it wouldn't be wiser to purchase a couple of battalion's worth of our own heavy arty rockets, in order to deter the enemy from being tempted to try such a surprise attack.

In the September 2006 issue of the Marine Corps Gazette there is a artical by Applied Ordinance Technology staff describing tests of the "Advanced Modular Gun".    Specificly this is a test platform for testing the full array of new cannon technology.  Propellants, projectiles, fuzes, and gun components.   The goals stated in the artical revolve around a test system for  developing 'large' caliber guns capable of ranges exceeding 150 nautical miles, and capable of rapid fire.  The intial test to validate the test equipment are described as completed.   The only indication of actuall performance achived is a remark that chamber pressures of over 90,000 pounds square inch were measured in the tests, which is close to the intial 100,000 lb goal.  Current cannon are described as reaching chamber pressures of 60,000 psi.  This chamber pressure achived should in theory give a muzzle velocity of over 8,000 feet per second with a appropriate tube, and a range exceeding 60 nautical miles.

The 'link' still does not work for me.  lets all go slap the sysop around.

Looking at the test schedule any production based on these tests is a decade out.