Iron Dome (Israeli Defense System)

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3 points·julio_iglesias··3 comments

Going off of IDF tweets yesterday saw:

48 launched, 14 intercepted ~29.16%

The day before saw

117 launched, 29 intercepted ~24.79%

Two day total of 25.5% effectiveness..

It is important to understand that Iron Dome ( in conjunction with the operator) only attempt to intercept rockets whose trajectories are towards populated/military areas. It is not feasible to intercept anything that will probably land in an open field, and the assessment in such short notice is part of the technology. Yes, the rockets fired at Israel are very inaccurate. It's kind of like someone waving a machine gun around spraying bullets everywhere and you only intercept the ones that are going to hit anything.

Unfortunately the lunatic waving that machine gun around is hiding between innocent civilians, so when you shoot back, they die too. Lose lose situation.

"It is not feasible to intercept anything that will probably land in an open field"

I think it is technically feasible (if you can hit most rockets aimed at a population center, you can also hit most rockets that will fall a few miles outside of it), but not a good idea financially, and also unwise.

If they shot at everything, the opponents would fire a barrage of dead-cheap home-made rockets without any accuracy until the Israelis ran out of expensive Iron Dome rockets, and then fire a few more expensive and more accurate rockets.

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