US Army scraps $1B Iron Dome project after Israel refuses to provide source code

Re:US Army scraps $1B Iron Dome project after Israel refuses... by numpad0 on Sunday March 08, 2020 @03:16AM (#22516772)

Iron Dome is a guided SAM against (unguided) munitions for kill by kinetic hit or close proximity explosion. A ground radar track hostile munitions, fly the missile into its face to kill like a bullet actually hitting another midair.

So they wouldn't like designers of its adversaries to know how to fly shells to avoid it.

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Re:US Army scraps $1B Iron Dome project after Israel refuses... by elif on Monday March 09, 2020 @03:22PM (#22528759)

I don't think the US would benefit much from understanding iron dome, as you can likely beat the 14% success rate of Qassam with ramjets, multiple angles of attack, or more than 20 missiles... Not much of a stretch for the US.

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