IRON DOME: The Unexpected Technology... 

Thank you so much for this informative video! I'd been wanting to know more about how Iron Dome works, since it's in the news so much.

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100K Woot !

Could you investigate and maybe do a video about Iron Beam and other various "energy" weapons ? Grazie !

Unguided homemade rockets.

I wonder if Otis will approve this background colour 😅

So it’s like a bargain AEGIS combat system? If it was my ass…. I’ll take that over just about anything else.

Tracking isn't equal to lock on, it needs much less tracking accuracy and data density.

@@joelau2383 Tracking is equal to lock for the ELM 2084 in most cases. The quality of track in search mode is good enough for a firing solution 95% of the time. If an enemy plane was to fly near or over an Iron Dome site it would never get an RWR warning before getting shot out of the sky. It would detect the ELM 2084s emissions without getting "spiked".

​@@miamijules2149 Aegis is 40 years old, everybody has it now.

My opinion, too.

If given SW update, could it target Cruise missiles And Planes.?

@@JMiskovsky It likely can already, they are slower easier to hit targets.

@@JMiskovsky , it depends on what configuration the customer countries have ordered. Up to date all export customers have ordered the radar as a stand-alone, but the Israelis are developing their anti-air and anti-ballistic system as a modular system. Next to providing target information for Iron Dome batteries, the EL/M-2084 can also support David's Sling, Patriot, Barak and SPYDER batteries and even field artillery batteries with counter-battery targeting. Czechia, Slovakia, Hungary and Finland have ordered Israeli SAM systems.

@@Locomotion-uz4ly I meant using those missiles from Iron dome against planes.

It has been exported in 1:72 scale hehe hehe 😉

Do you have a source for that first statement? I haven't been able to find any images of a Tamir missile with a rounded nose.

@@halthewise3995 Watch new video of this guy about the Iron Dome and u will see the source of my statement at 5:50 🙂

The AEGIS can do that, the S-400 can do that, it is impressive for such a small system.

With the signal processing required transceivers are actually not much more complicated than accurate directional receivers. There is little point in it being semi active these days as opposed to fully active. You can do tricks with timing the difference between the radar pulse from the illuminating radar reaching the interceptor and the reflection reaching it, but this requires both to be in the beam, complicating the fire control further. Active is also able to be much more accurate in terms of direction, because reflections in the side lobes are reduced by both the illumination and the receiving. A target in a 10% side lobe will have 10% return in semi active mode, but only 1% return in fully active mode because it is also only illuminated 10%. If the fire control system is good enough to get it within ~30m, and closing rate is not stupidly high (possibly a reason for the turns), the radar doesn't have to be particularly powerful or sophisticated to get very close. If it is closing at a rate of 200m/s, able to accurately track the target from 200m, and able to pull a 10G turn, it can deflect up to 50m. Even a very simple radar could almost certainly find a track nearby given decent initial position and speed information. I think they would be better thought of as active terminal guidance, rather than active. They are probably not going to do well in a fire and forget situation, as I expect most of their coarse guidance comes from the datalink.

​@@agsystems8220I suspect you are a clever duck 😉

It's most like just the same interceptor that the Pantsir uses, both are around the same dimensions , weight and similiar aerodynamics And claims of infrared or having any sort of its own radar seeker inside the missile are bullshit

@@xblade11230 so you think Iron Dome is command guided? That's not a very accurate way of guiding an interceptor missile, hence why it's fallen out of use in favour of IR and radar.

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Oooh, maybe, _maybe,_ they have no brains, they're just missile drones, but with radar transceivers in the nose, and the C2 just uses them as supplementary radars? So iron Dome "sees" via everything in flight, a true conductor of death. It really would be trivial to process all that data.

Fake. That was from a video game.

These palestinian rockets are so cheap they can all be considered to be "decoys". Normally, decoys are used to protect a more valuable payload carrier.

There is not much info out there...

Isreal is incredibly security conscious… if their had been much more detail in this video Gus might have had a visit from tanned gentlemen in suits lol

​@@mcal27😅 Israel. Security conscious. 😂

@@yzdatabase4175 I’m not defending them or otherwise. But about military hardware etc it’s a fact. This isn’t a political channel

so I wonder how it can independently do target detection/confirmation in missile in case a lot of targets at same time -> Id assume rockets are safe targets, but it would need human operator assist for planes, helicopters etc to avoid friendly fire.... eg image recognition on tip of rocket. with FCS I wonder limitations; either rockets are slow-ish and thus faster cruise missiles are harder than dumber rockets(ie interceptor has to have very robust target identification as time is of essence) in video clip.

@@effexon If I'm not mistaken Iron Dome has been designed specifically as a C-RAM (Counter - Rocket, Artillery, Mortar) system and not as a general purpose surface to air missile system. So deconfliction (preventing fratricide) probably wasn't the main concern if at all. As for independent targeting and/or re-engagement by the missiles, I think that's enabled by a passive radar seeker looking for radar reflections in the sky made by the ground radar (homing) with an on board algorithm telling the missile something like "IF = _> < target nearest>." The missiles would most likely not be beam riding, since that would require the ground control radar having to produce a multitude of near constant beams. Instead I think the radar 'paints' a wide area of likely points of intercept and sends the missiles there. But it's all speculation from my part.

Tamir missile has pretty similar dimensions with ESSM, QAMM or VL Mica, 20-40km is reasonable range but 70km is way too much. Even with lower impulse higher duration burn time motor it is doubtful that the interceptor missile capable to perform useful intercept maneuver due to very low energy state.

07:40 Link 16.. everybody talks to somebody sometimes...

Watch the video till the end, please.

Yeah, a simple glider vehicle that can manoeuvre would be problematic as they can turn into a vulnerable area so iron dome discounts it could be very difficult to deal with as you have to shoot everything down

@@Millennium7HistoryTech Fake ? probably one or two prototypes working/testing

@@noname-wo9yy Or maybe just some sort of a "second stage" or something like "gas thruster" stick on the side of the rocket, small explosive engaged by a timed primer, changing the course of the rocket by not much, but enough to get out of lethal range of ID launched missiles?

are you referring to UK storm shadow and russian made DIY mods glider bombs from older dumb bombs...

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The RIM-116 is a pure fire-and-forget point defense missile that uses a combination of anti-radar and infrared homing. That's not ideal against cool non-emitting targets like mortar rounds or short ranged ballistic rockets.

Also the average interception speed could be supersonic but between mach 1 and mach 2, thus need less rocket propellant, smaller size, thus cheaper

Make sense?

@@LuqmanHM the fact sonic booms arent reported puts the intercept speed subsonic

You'd think but alas C-RAM is very wasteful with bullets and needs hundreds to destroy a target. A better alternative, which is actually considered, is the Mantis. 35mm revolver cannon with 1000+ RPM firing AHEAD shells which are cheap yet use submunitions to increase hit probability by a lot. That being said range is a concern and also debris to a smaller extent. Another problem is that it overlaps with the Iron Beam.