Re:The evidence that shows Iron Dome is not working
by ars on Tuesday July 22, 2014 @03:52AM
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You are forgetting that Israel [tries to] destroys the launcher and the attacker after every launch. So every rocket attack is basically a suicide attack.
I think that's the main cause of most of the civilian death - Israel doesn't have time to check for civilians in the area, they counter attack almost instantly.
So they'll launch a bunch while they can before they die.
I don't think you can really comprehend the level of hate going on there that would make someone suicide and take civilians with him for even a tiny chance of killing an Israeli.
If this is the case. Then in the presence of Iron dome, only impact those rockets have is in scaring away people.
It hardly makes any sense to fire a barrage of rockets in this case. A more optimal strategy is fire them a few at a time spread out over a period of time.
Either way Iron dome will still remain expensive.