Iron Dome: A missile shield that works
“We’ve got about a 90% success rate,” he says, proudly giddy. “This is unprecedented in history.” It’s also impossible to confirm, but the lack of Israeli casualties suggests Iron Dome is the most-effective, most-tested missile shield the world has ever seen.
“We keep tweaking it,” says the senior official, who declined to be identified. “In one of the recent exchanges, one of the batteries was 100% [successful]. That means, to me, that Iron Dome is capable of 100% [across the board] — I don’t think it was entirely a fluke.” He said he didn’t know how many missiles and interceptors were involved in the salvo; an Iron Dome battery typically consists of a radar unit and three launchers, each outfitted with 20 Tamir interceptor missiles.
The bottom line: the more rockets Hamas fires, it seems, the better at stopping them Iron Dome becomes.
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“The lack of Israeli casualties” is caused by BOMBSHELTERS.
Buildings in Israel have bombshelters for civilians.
The Palestinians don’t have them, and if they do, they’re used exclusively by terrorists or as weapons depots.
Palestinian civilians are the bombshelters.
Of course, try to explain the logic that if Israel intentionally targets civilians, why use human shields?
The 100 to 3 body count being pushed is BS. There’s a reason.
Ben Hur on November 19, 2012 at 7:23 PM
Too bad Obama scrapped development of our own missile shield shortly after taking office. If we had pollsters, we could check to see where Americans stand on that. Break it down by party affiliation. Some people might learn that they are conservatives.
Buddahpundit on November 19, 2012 at 7:35 PM
Yep the dome is working to some extent, but could be overwhelmed by Hezbollah’s estimated 7,000 missiles raining down from Israel’s northern border. And, guess who is supplying both Hamas in Gaza and Hezbollah in Southern Lebanon these missiles ………………. IRAN!!!!!!!! Iran who is developing a nuclear weapon. My prayers are with peace loving people of Israel.
SC.Charlie on November 19, 2012 at 7:39 PM
The numbers I’ve seen beg to differ. Sure it’s shooting down some missiles, but the majority of rockets are making it through.
Dack Thrombosis on November 19, 2012 at 7:53 PM
From the article
HotAirian on November 19, 2012 at 8:26 PM