Israel's Iron Dome Is Amazing, and That's a Problem

Re:Israel's Iron Dome Is Amazing, and That's a Problem by spingsprong on Saturday July 12, 2014 @12:10PM (#8024903)

The final section on the wikipedia page for "Iron Dome", has a few citations questioning the effectiveness of the system. I have no idea how accurate those sources are.

Even if those criticisms are incorrect, there are still blindingly obvious countermeasures that could be fairly easily be installed into the rockets that would reduce the effectiveness of Iron Dome.

So this success if it exists, could be short lived.

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Re:Israel's Iron Dome Is Amazing, and That's a Problem by throwaway901 on Saturday July 12, 2014 @12:24PM (#8024955)

No, most of these rockets are incredibly primitive. They can't easily install countermeasures, no matter how obvious they might seem. (The amount of advanced rockets from Iran is limited.)

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Re:Israel's Iron Dome Is Amazing, and That's a Problem by spingsprong on Saturday July 12, 2014 @12:30PM (#8024971)

And I was talking about incredibly primitive countermeasures.

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