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xmunk ,

The Iron Dome is looking pretty rusty... I wonder how much Likud diverted to private accounts in the Caymans.

HuddaBudda ,
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That's the real story at the bottom of this mess.

  • Israel was warned about the attack a month before it happened.
  • 4 billion dollars in US funding that was supposed to go to Israeli defense somehow didn't work.
  • US is having to privately ship weapons to Israel behind congress and senate approval.
MysticDaedra ,

The Iron Dome only protects against short-range rockets. Israel's Arrow and Arrow II Endospheric and Exospheric anti-missile defense systems are what most of the missiles that were intercepted by Israel were shot down with.

DoomBot5 ,

How so? Most targets were either ballistic missiles that iron dome doesn't intercept (David's sling and Arrow intercept missiles and ICBMs) or shot down long before reaching Israel.

Count042 ,

What do you think ICBM stands for?

DoomBot5 ,

They fired smaller missiles as well.

Count042 ,

Most targets were either ballistic missiles that iron dome doesn’t intercept (David’s sling and Arrow intercept missiles and ICBMs)

What do you think ICBM stands for again?

DoomBot5 ,

Inter continent ballistic missiles. A specific class of missiles, which were not the only ones used in the attack.

Inter continent ballistic missiles. A specific class of missiles, which were not the only ones used in the attack.

Here, I replied twice so you can ignore one of them like you did my reply. You can even be more pandentic about one of them, then ignore that and read the second one.

Jimmycakes ,

Iron dome was conceived before small drones were really a thing like they are now.

xmunk ,

It was built starting in 2011 - we knew small drones were a thing long before then. You're thinking of consumer drones but drones have been a real military concept since at least the mid nineties.

Cethin ,

1917 actually. The concept is really old. Basically, why use a human to do something dangerous if it can be made smaller and not require a person in harm's way?

Jimmycakes ,

Yeah but military drones are huge as luck. Reapers are massive.