A new anti-missile defense system that tested successfully last week will take "years" to deploy, Israel's defense minister said Monday, Associated Press reports.
"We can't sow the illusion that now that development has been successfully completed, tomorrow morning there already will be complete protection for the Gaza area or the north," Ehud Barak said. "It will take years before we are equipped."
Though the system will one day protect Israel against missile attacks from Gaza and Lebanon, Barak was attempting to downplay hopes that Iron Dome -- as the system is called -- will be deployed soon.
"It will save time of fighting and deter in many cases a potential enemy from really launching an attack," he said in English.
Iron Dome cost Israel $200 million to develop, while the cost of terrorist rockets is in the hundreds of dollars.
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