I wonder if the USA gave Israel a weapon to test and thereby they jointly develop and share the costs of R&D as they do with the Arrow Missile Program. My wife was the GS9 Admin Office Manager for the Arrow Field Office in Tel Aviv in 2005-2006. There are a lot of interesting stories I could tell but won’t about the Mossad and the diplomatic community. I loved Israel and would go back in an instant; in fact if I lived there I would volunteer for IDF if it didn’t affect my various retirement clauses.
Very likely. Back when France was friendly, we worked on the Mirage together. Then we went and won a war too fast, and grabbed territory that was historically ours, and France broke all ties. I think the Iron Dome missile defense system was a joint project with the US under Dubya. It’s no coincidence that Israel is shooting for the moon, too. Both the US and Israel have a vested interest in beating the Chicoms to establishing an operational base there.