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 "title": "The European Sky Shield: The Shield Europe Can Buy versus the One It Can Build",
 "url": "https://www.grosswald.org/strengthening-eu-air-defense-natinamds-and-essi-sky-shield/",
 "canonical": "https://www.grosswald.org/strengthening-eu-air-defense-natinamds-and-essi-sky-shield/",
 "type": "dispatch",
 "published": "2024-11-11T12:52:10.000+01:00",
 "updated": "2026-07-14T13:25:11.000+02:00",
 "excerpt": "Europe's first ballistic-missile shield — Arrow 3 at Holzdorf, on duty since December 2025 — is Israeli. That fact defines the European Sky Shield Initiative: off-the-shelf speed against the sovereign interceptor France still wants to build.",
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