Wednesday, July 16, 2014

A Skeptical View of Israel's Iron Dome Rocket Defense System - Slashdot

A Skeptical View of Israel's Iron Dome Rocket Defense System - Slashdot:



Every time you see great pronouncements about the effectiveness of Israel's so called "Iron Dome" missile defense technology, they are lying. Listen to this interview with Ted Postol, an MIT-based missile defense expert on NPR last Wednesday. He stated at one point  "We can tell, for sure, from video images and even photographs that the Iron Dome system is not working very well at all," Postol said. "It—my guess is maybe [it hits a targeted missile] 5 percent of the time—could be even lower. ... And when you look—what you can do in the daytime—you can see the smoky contrail of each Iron Dome interceptor, and you can see the Iron Domes trying to intercept the artillery rockets side on and from behind. In those geometries, the Iron Dome has no chance, for all practical purposes, of destroying the artillery rocket."


A Skeptical View of Israel's Iron Dome Rocket Defense System - Slashdot:

For a more in depth evaluation of Israel's claims see: This article from the bulletin of Atomic Scientists:
Iron Dome: The public relations weapon.




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