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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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