Israel claims that its Iron Dome defense system is 90% accurate. On Tuesday, US President Joe Biden said he had already begun sending additional aid to Israel, including interceptors to replenish the Iron Dome defense system.
For years, Israel has used and relied heavily on the Iron Dome system to detect and intercept incoming rockets.
What is Israel’s Iron Dome system?
Iron Dome is Israel’s effective defense system that detects and intercepts rockets. Israel has this very old system and is getting help from the US to further upgrade it.
How does Iron Dome work?
The system is equipped with a radar that detects the speed and direction of an incoming rocket, after which its control center determines whether the rocket is a threat to Israel or not. The system allows rockets that pose no threat to land in empty fields. If the rockets pose a threat, the firing unit fires missiles to shoot down its launcher, which has 20 interceptor missiles attached to it.
Iron Dome was originally billed as providing city-sized coverage against rockets between four and 70 kilometers away, but experts have since estimated that its system could still Confirmed.
Why was it developed?
The Iron Dome defense system has been developed by Israel’s defense technology company Rafael Advanced Defense Systems. The project was developed in 2006 to counter rocket attacks during the war with Hezbollah, but the project was launched in 2011 and, after completion, is now the strongest defense system in Israel’s defense system against rockets. To prevent.
Erin Dome, a naval base also developed by Israel, was deployed in 2017 to protect ships and assets at sea.
The cost of Israel’s interception system to shoot down the rockets is between thousands and millions of dollars. is developing a laser-based system for neutralization to reduce costs.
Is the Iron Dome effective?
Israel has claimed that its Iron Dome system is 90% effective The United States Department of Defense has also said that this system is effective.
If you look at some of the previous years, this system has completely stopped Hamas rockets, But Iron Dome, which has just been attacked by Hamas, has failed to withstand such a massive attack.
One of the reasons for this is that Hamas used to fire few rockets until the Iron Dome stopped the attack when Hamas fired 470 rockets in May 2021.
But now the attack that has been done by Hamas is very big. Hamas has said that we have fired 5,000 rockets, but Israel has said that 2,500 rockets have been fired by Hamas. Due to this, the Iron Dome defense system has failed.
A report by the Modern War Institute revealed that This attack was much more than an Iron Dome arrangement.
This means the Iron Dome can stop a certain number of rockets, if that number is exceeded, the rest of the rockets will enter the system. The system’s technical flaws were first identified in 2014 as it was rapidly deflecting from its target.
Do other countries also use the Iron Dome?
Iron Dome has also turned its attention to other countries The Rafael Advanced Defense System says it delivered two batteries to the US in 2020
Ukraine is also ready to receive this defense system, although Israel has so far provided Ukraine with humanitarian aid and civil defense.