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| Israel to deploy three new Iron Dome interceptors |
| 2014-07-17 |
| [Al Ahram] Israel has found funding for three new Iron Dome rocket interceptors, an Israeli official said on Tuesday. Israel had seven Iron Domes set up to shoot down missiles when cross-border fighting with Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason,-led bully boyz surged on July 8, and has since brought two more into service, Israel's Defence Ministry said. Speaking to Rooters on condition of anonymity, the Israeli official said that as a result of its operations against Gazoo, dubbed Operation Protective Edge, three new Iron Dome units were now "in the pipeline". The Israeli official did not expand on where the money for the new rocket interceptors came from. But Yair Ramati, head of the Defence Ministry's missile defence agency, told news hounds at the weekend that all but two of the Iron Dome batteries in the field were paid for with US grants. The US embassy in Israel did not immediately comment about the planned increase in the Iron Dome deployment on Tuesday. Israeli defence industry sources have said in the past that Iron Dome batteries cost about $50 million each but added that this would be reduced as state-owned manufacturer Rafael Advanced Defense Systems Ltd. refined its production techniques. Israeli and US officials said Iron Dome, which is designed to shoot down rockets threatening to hit residential areas while ignoring those falling wide, has scored a 90 percent success rate in intercepting incoming rockets. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #6 Ya' go with what ya' got. |
| Posted by: Barbara 2014-07-17 14:15 |
| #5 Sometimes only perfection is good enough |
| Posted by: Bright Pebbles 2014-07-17 12:44 |
| #4 Even though it seems to be kinda sorta working and a whole lot of people are not dead. What's the old Russian saying - Perfect is the enemy of good enough. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2014-07-17 08:09 |
| #3 Goodness. Y'all are certainly unkind to the pretentious. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2014-07-17 07:13 |
| #2 Yea, but if you give Raytheon (you did notice the author's affiliation, SteveS) 10 billion, in 10 years they'll give you something that destroys 10% of the incoming missiles in the right way. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2014-07-17 06:02 |
| #1 IronDome ... has scored a 90 percent success rate in intercepting incoming rockets. As we saw in an article the other day, Iron Dome may have a success rate of 90%, but it is destroying the incoming rockets in exactly the wrong way, so this doesn't really count. Even though it seems to be kinda sorta working and a whole lot of people are not dead. |
| Posted by: SteveS 2014-07-17 03:33 |