GO Israel......Iron Dome

Oberon · 11-17-12, 03:13 PM

I did wonder how Iron Dome would hold up in a real missile scenario. I guess this is the warm up exercise before the Iran job. Seems to be doing a good job so far, and they have the old Patriot system as back up, and IIRC it will intercept at higher altitudes than Iron Dome, so if Iranian MRBMs come in then Patriot can have a shot at them.
But for what it was designed for, intercepting rockets from Gaza, it's been doing very well. Back in March when the last barrage of rockets came over from Gaza Iron Dome got 56 kills out of 71 attempts. That's a good kill ratio.
It's also smart that it calculates the ballistic arc of a weapon and then ignores missiles that aren't going to hit populated areas so it doesn't suffer target overload.
It's an impressive system, kudos to the Israeli and American designers.

11-17-12, 03:13 PM	#11
Oberon Lucky Jack Join Date: Jul 2002 Posts: 25,976 Downloads: 61 Uploads: 20	I did wonder how Iron Dome would hold up in a real missile scenario. I guess this is the warm up exercise before the Iran job. Seems to be doing a good job so far, and they have the old Patriot system as back up, and IIRC it will intercept at higher altitudes than Iron Dome, so if Iranian MRBMs come in then Patriot can have a shot at them. But for what it was designed for, intercepting rockets from Gaza, it's been doing very well. Back in March when the last barrage of rockets came over from Gaza Iron Dome got 56 kills out of 71 attempts. That's a good kill ratio. It's also smart that it calculates the ballistic arc of a weapon and then ignores missiles that aren't going to hit populated areas so it doesn't suffer target overload. It's an impressive system, kudos to the Israeli and American designers.