US reveals details of top-secret Israeli missile base

“If an enemy of Israel wanted to launch an attack against a facility, this would give him an easy how-to guide. This type of information is closely guarded and its release can jeopardize the entire facility,” said an Israeli military official who declined to be named because he wasn’t authorized to discuss the facility.

More than 1,000 pages of information about the project were made public when the US government published building tenders for the $25 million military installation this week, according to the Australian.

The document disclosed details from the engineering plans and the depth of the underground facility to its cooling and heating systems and building materials to be used.

The missile facility is to be built at Tel Shahar, a base between al-Quds (Jerusalem) and Ashdod whose location has never been officially confirmed.

Arrow 3, which is capable of intercepting missiles at a range of 2,500 kilometers and is being jointly developed by Israel Aerospace Industries and the US aerospace giant Boeing Co., is slated to become operational in 2015-16.