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- ↑ Israel Aerospace Industries.
- ↑ ELM2226 Archived 2015-02-21 at the Wayback Machine .
- ↑ Norman Friedman, The Naval Institute Guide to World Naval Weapons Systems, 1997–1998(Naval Institute Press, 1997) page 296.
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