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Re:Hackers Plundered Israeli Defense Firms that Built ‘Iron ... by danielweber on Monday July 28, 2014 @12:04PM (#8097565)
Assuming the rockets are reasonably accurate and targeted to do the most damage possible,

I'm saying this hesitantly, because it has the potential for things to go off the rails into a flame war, but the rockets are very inaccurate -- literally hitting the side of a barn would be a good strike. Damaging them probably reduces the chances of them hitting a high-value target by a few percentage points, but they have no targeting systems on board. They are flung in a general area, and landing in place X or place Y in that general area isn't too much different.

There are also significant psychological factors at play.

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Re:Hackers Plundered Israeli Defense Firms that Built ‘Iron ... by spingsprong on Monday July 28, 2014 @12:11PM (#8097619)
Iron Dome calculates the probable impact point of rockets fired at Israel, and only intercepts rockets that are going towards inhabited areas.
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Re:Hackers Plundered Israeli Defense Firms that Built ‘Iron ... by ranran876 on Monday July 28, 2014 @12:55PM (#8097945)
Which means somewhere the Israelis have a priority map with which areas are more or less important to defend.

Can you imagine the shitstorm that would come out of something like that leaking?

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Re:Hackers Plundered Israeli Defense Firms that Built ‘Iron ... by danielweber on Monday July 28, 2014 @01:18PM (#8098078)
Nah; if something is projected to land in a bunch of, say, farmland, then trying to intercept it could make it land someplace worse.

A necessary prerequisite to a missile defense system is a way of telling where rockets are going. Even if they don't have the first, they probably have the second.

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