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Iron Dome calculates the probable impact point of rockets fired at Israel, and only intercepts rockets that are going towards inhabited areas.
by spingsprong 12y ago
Iron Dome calculates the probable impact point of rockets fired at Israel, and only intercepts rockets that are going towards inhabited areas.
- ranran876 12y agoWhich 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?
- danielweber 12y agoNah; 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.