The iron dome is an amazing piece of engineering, however The Katyusha rockets favored by Hamas and Hezbollah typically cost about $300 a round, while the Iron Dome's Tamir missiles cost anywhere from $40,000 to $50,000 each according to a researcher at Israel's Institute for National Security Studies.
How valuable are the targets that would be destroyed by the rockets, though? Assuming the rockets hit a tank worth 6 million, the $50k spent on a missile to intercept the rocket is worth it. Moreover, once a rocket is fired, the location of firing is known and the source can be destroyed. So you don't exactly have an infinite drain on military budget, sinking $50k for every $300 spent by Hamas, IF you're reacting quickly and taking down the rocket launchers.
Hmm Israel has 10 iron dome batteries, each battery consists of 3-4 launcher with 20 missiles each (80 max per battery). Total rockets required to destroy a battery need to be 80++, let's say 100 (5% success rate). By raining a 1000 rockets, Israel will no longer have iron dome left. Every rocket shot after would devastate airports or military structures.
like someone else said, you have to consider the damage the missile does on impact, as well as human lives saved. 50k is insanely cheap and a technological marvel, for an interceptor like that
They intercept low tier rockets launched by a bunch of terrorists in a strip of land that has access to barely any resources. No wonder they'll have such a high accuracy. It's not like they are getting really tested by another highly militarized state.
As devastating as the US Operation Barrel Roll (1964-1973) where 260 million bombs were dropped on Laos, making Laos "the most heavily bombed nation in history"?
That’s Gods land - this world will keep attacking Israel due to that. Gods plan for Israel, the people of Israel who worship him that is, Jew and Gentile are one in messiah - protected no matter what.
I went to Israel in 2010. I was shocked by the high level of security Israel had 13 years ago. how did it fail to prevent this is confusing. My heart goes out to every innocent victim in this conflict. as people, we are to do better.
Some people speculate that this ignorance was intentional for something, others say that Israel wasn't prepared for such an event and/or expected a different type of attack. As for some missiles that hit Israel, that was probably because Hamas sent an overwhelming amount of missiles for the Iron dome to handle.
It would appear that if you can rapidly fire enough missiles in a short period of time, the iron dome isn't so iron. It has limitations that are deadly.
@gabeskyler6068 but like the comment below mine says, it's economics. Keep over loafing the system with cheap missles till they run out of money to defend them. But that's not Isreal problem now. America will now step in and print money to pay for it.
The Iron Dome is definitely impressive and outstanding. BUT it would be EVEN more impressive if it could NOT only passively neutralised incoming rockets but fire a secondary rocket from above using calculated trajectory to source of launch thus making it a passive aggressive weapon shield. 👍🏻
That's overloading. Better have something being great at 1 task than something just ok at 2. And besides, you dont want to start a war by automatically shooting back at a country that misfired or had a rocket defect.
@@aomafura3374 Perhaps a numerical threshold of rockets being set in motion to target in current context could be used to determine if it was intentional or simply an accident. I believe such a passive/aggressive weapons technology is plausible today especially with the advent of Artificial Intelligence to make it great at achieving 2 objectives with just one Iron dome missile and greatly reducing cost.
Israel is actually kinda doing what you mentioned. As soon as the radar detects that a rocket is fired, Israel pinpoints from where it was fired in the Gaza strip and minutes or even seconds later airstrikes the very area.
So it’s literally the same thing as a patriot missile system except there’s smaller missiles and instead of carrying tutor for missile, they carry a lot more smaller missiles
Yes but all of that's significantly ramps up the complexity of the system. Smaller and more targets requires more sophisticated radars. More interceptors means more processing power required to calculate flight data. Large amount of batteries and spread out systems means that there needs to be communication between the systems that needs to be secured and reliable. Iron Dome batteries are constantly on the move to prevent getting attacked so they also need to be mobile and easy to pack everything up and go
no it's not the same. Patriot can go much higher and faster to take out ballistic missiles, and PAC-3 uses a kinetic kill vehicle. Think of iron dome like a handgun, and patriot like a rifle, and THAAD like a cannon. They each have their own special uses
Didn't Israel also have a system that can detect and locate where the enemy missile was launched and send a retaliatory missile back to cancel out the aggressors?
7000 rockets fired and they only have 700 total casualties, most of whom were shot not rocketed. there were like 18 direct hits of buildings, most of the injuries and deaths are from hamas shooting people. 260 alone, shot at a desert rave party. some people injured from shrapnel and debris etc. I live in israel. They didnt BEAT the iron Dome.
They beat it convincingly sorry Seriously tho, youre downplaying 700 deaths.. its up to 1200 now.. Those cheap rockets from hamas barely cost anything and the iron dome couldnt stop most of it tsk tsk tsk
that may also be the reason why the US was hesitant to give hi tech weaponries to Ukraine because it might also fall to the wrong hands and reverse engineered.
US 'high-tech' weaponry gets pulverized in Ukraine. Russians targeted and took out the Patriot anti-missile battery with a missile. US weaponry is high maintenance, meant to make the contractors rich. No one wants to copy them. Afghan beards kicked Americans and their 'high-tech' weaponry out. 😂😁
Since Hamas attacked Israel. Israel has nonstop bombed Gaza Strip. So far between both sides over 1000 dead. Thousands injured and many have been captured by Hamas which includes civilians and Israeli soldiers. I cant see Israel backing off anymore nor can I see the UN being able to stop it this time.
What did the senior ranks in the army and SHABAK and the Israeli Democrats do?? These questions, alas, lie on the surface. They did anything but what they were supposed to do. They saved democracy, fought against the “apartheid State”, fought for the lives, freedom and dignity of the Palestinians.
I have always wondered, doesn't a bunch of stuff come raining down from the sky from the destroyed missiles? Yes, I am aware that is much better than the alternative. I am still curious about this.
Yes. thats why they try to intercept the rocket as soon as they can. Other wise there can be debris that falls. This is why when there is an siren people are told stay in the bomb shelter for 10 minutes.
It’s a ground to air missile system designed to enter sept missiles like the patriot missile system except those are designed to intercept bigger missiles like Russian S 400s that are designed to take out fighters
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Don't make the mistake to think that the engineers that created iron dome are different from those that create missiles or any weapon of mass destruction. They are pretty much the same people.
yeah, we're definitely in a new era of reporting now that everyone is walking around with a high resolution camera and internet has proliferated further. it's interesting to be so connected to people on the ground there
@@raphk9599 Please, when Ukraine liberates parts of its country, please do not support it and accuse it of terrorism as you accuse the Palestinians, but you have double standards.
A perfect example of treating the symptom instead of the cause. As an Australian who has never had a singld rocket fired into my city this whole situation is just totally incomprehensible to me.
@@kishascapedepends on whether the people would rather Israel to rule them than Palestine. And let's just say they're currently not doing the greatest of jobs.
@@zaxi0 Hamas would get rolled by ISIS and become another satellite state like Aghanistan but now with access to the Mediterranean. Nice braindead take though and lazy effort trying to be trendy.
Each rocket costs around $40,000 and Hamas are launching cheap $3,000 rockets. If they launch over 25,000 rockets Israel is gonna be spending a lot of money
Honest question: why doesn't the enemy just increase the rate of rockets fired to overwhelm the maximum block rate of the interceptor. In other words, don't fire a few rockets at a time (just to have them intercepted), fire like 1,000 rockets at once. There's no way the interceptor can block all of them.
I'd guess it is to cause interceptor expenditure more than anything. Hella expensive to take down 1 missile. Once interceptor supply is low, determined however, then overwhelm.
Hamas fired more than 3000 rockets in one DAY, and truly, the settlements around Gaza were left without any domes, and eventually, many rockets crashed into homes, thus leading to thousands of injuries of helpless civilians
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I mean, it wasn't gonna take rocket scientist to work out, if you have 10 missile batteries and each of those can take out 20 incoming projectiles, then you can only realistically target 200 at any given time, if your throwing 1000 missiles in that direction, alot of them are gonna get through, another thing to remember is the iron dome is 90% effective, what people forget is that, that's 90% effective against the selected incoming targets, remember it can target and doesn't target more then it can actually shoot down, so when you hear 90% effective, that's 90% effective against those it selected, the vast majority of missiles get though without even being selected by system
We need the Russians and Chinese to move in to break the siege of Gaza so that they can import modern defensive weapons. - - - - PS: Warned about my pro-Palestine posts like this one. An organized campaign to intimidate RU-vid staff to cancel me?
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Its crazy how they even need this type of defense system. What sick minded country thinks that the best thing to do is to rain down thousands of rockets onto innocent civilians??!!
Iron Dome and Tamir interceptor missile are an Israeli development manufactured by Rafael Advanced Combat Systems.I think you should go back to school(American taxpayer)
@@redrust3 Raytheon designed it..... and also a better version. Hamas stockpiled 3500 rockets because the Mossad is not anywhere near as good as the propaganda makes them out to be. Now they are exposed, for the whole world to see: They suck at spying.
Iron Dome calculates the trajectory of the missile if the missile is supposed to fall outside the city or outside the infrastructure of the Iron Dome does not launch the interceptor Tamir missile
Well I know it’s not 100% but isn’t there a percentage that if a nuke was launched to the iron dome there’s a chance they could get to it before it hit the ground
One need to note that the palestinians have found a small issue with the system after launching more then 50 missiles at the time the system can't choose which to target to its chooses to stand by and not intercept
What's your source? I fear you might have been a victim of propaganda. The system will indeed stand by, but only if the calculated trajectory of the attacking missiles is believed to be going to hit an area where it will be harmless. But that is so as to retain ammunition for when the rockets can actually harm the population.
Cost of interception is very high as commented below several times. The answer is the new laser system that is being actively developed by Israel and the USA. Israels system is just finishing testing and is highly effective at up to one half mile (100 KW power) and it does need more research development prior to deployment, it is coming "soon". Cost per shot of the laser is under $10. When deployed Israel won't have to spend $45,000 to shoot down a $500 missile. Could be one of the reasons Iran ordered Hamas to attack now. More likely our incredibly weak and senile President has a lot to do with timing. He probably doesn't even know this has happened yet.
We the people of the United States of America, 0f every ethnicity, Latino, Black, White, Asian, Native, or whatever, support the nation of the Most High God of our faith, Israel. We will defend Israel and rip apart all evil people who DARE attack the apple of God's eyes. The Angelic Forces are ready also to defend. The devil will NOT have the final say.
The Israel-palestine conflict is NOT COMPLICATED! The Israeli Perspective: From the Israeli perspective, the State of Israel was established in 1948 as a homeland for the Jewish people, following centuries of persecution and the Holocaust. Israelis argue that they have a legitimate right to self-determination and a secure state to protect the Jewish people. They believe that their historical and religious connection to the land of Israel, dating back thousands of years, justifies their presence and control over the territory. Israelis also contend that they have made numerous concessions for peace and have repeatedly expressed a willingness to negotiate a two-state solution. The Palestinian Perspective: From the Palestinian perspective, they argue that they are the indigenous people of the land and that they have historically lived in the region for centuries. Palestinians assert that they have been subjected to occupation, discrimination, and human rights abuses as a result of Israeli policies. They seek self-determination and the establishment of an independent Palestinian state based on the pre-1967 borders, with East Jerusalem as its capital. Palestinians also argue that Israeli settlements built in the occupied territories are illegal under international law and hinder the establishment of a viable Palestinian state. Palestinians have the right to defend their land, and they have so for the past 50 years. I stand with Palestinians even when the US is blind because of the power of those we can't speak against.(You know who they are)
