Wary of an Iraqi chemical or biological weapons attack, the Israeli Defense Forces yesterday debuted a system to locate the point of impact of ballistic missiles landing in unpopulated Israeli areas, Ha’aretz reported today (see GSN, May 29).

The new system — known as Roman Temple — consists of several stations and high-altitude cameras to observe specific locations and track missiles in the final phase of their trajectories, Ha’aretz reported (see GSN, March 8).

Roman Temple is intended to provide coverage of open areas where a ballistic missile attack might go undetected, according the Israeli Home Front Command.  The cameras, which can monitor distances of several kilometers, are designed to alert emergency workers to begin decontaminating an area as soon as possible, Ha’aretz reported (see GSN, Aug. 23).

Officials will be able to lower alert levels in other areas after detecting the ballistic missile impact site, according to Ha’aretz (Amnon Barzliai, Ha’aretz, Dec. 19).

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