Austere Challenge 12 Between US and Israel Begins

Israel and the US began Austere Challenge 12, on Sunday.

It is a series of anti missile exercises, set to take go on for the next three weeks.

Austere Challenge 12 is designed to test Israel's capabilities in missile defense.

Some of the exercises will have simulated missiles coming from all hostile nations in the area, seeing if Israel can withstand that kind of all out attack.

Thirty-five hundred US troops and a thousand Israelis are involved in the defense exercises.

Only a thousand of the US troops will actually be in Israel, the rest are in Europe and the Mediterranean.