- Jericho Missile
- An Israeli-produced surface-to-surface ballistic missile. The short-range version, the Jericho I, was said to have a range of up to 500 kilometers and to be armed with a conventional warhead. Its intermediate-range counterpart, the Jericho II, was a two-stage missile with a range of about 1,500 kilometers and was capable of carrying a conventional warhead or a nonconventional (chemical or nuclear) warhead. Israeli development of the Jericho began in 1963 in cooperation with France. Development of the Jericho II began in the mid-1970s, with Israel Aircraft Industries as the prime contractor. The Jericho has never been tested in combat, although there were reports of plans to deploy it in both the Yom Kippur War (1973) and the Persian Gulf War (1991). The Jericho is considered a vital component of Israel's capability to deter and defend against long-range ballistic missile threats posed by Iran and other regional and extrare-gional adversaries.
Historical Dictionary of Israel. Bernard Reich David H. Goldberg. Edited by Jon Woronoff..
