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Re: US fuming over Israeli criticism of Kerry |
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Posted by WillD on Wed Jul 30 23:13:59 2014, in response to Re: US fuming over Israeli criticism of Kerry, posted by Train Dude on Wed Jul 30 17:25:55 2014. Eh, "Iron Dome Ineffective" would have yielded a wealth of information faster than I could provide it. But the Bulletin of Atomic Sciences provided the initial information that the system is not a particularly effective anti-missile system. Foreign Policy In Focus fleshes out some of the details and highlights some of the other issues. Another expert on weapons systems at MIT concludes that the system is ineffective in the MIT Technology Review.Essentially the problem is the same as was encountered by the Patriot PAC-2 system in 1991. The PAC-2 attacked the target with the largest radar return, and frequently struck the spent SCUD rocket stage rather than the smaller, already detached warhead. In the same way the Iron Dome interceptor missile is fused such that a shaped charge launches in a cone around the interceptor, striking the rocket microseconds after the fuse detects its target. But in those few microseconds the target rocket moves its warhead past the cone into which the shaped charge detonates and the interceptor's warhead is wasted on the spent solid rocket stage of the rocket. The experts generally agree that Israel's casualties, or lack thereof, are attributable to their extensive civil defense force and large number of air raid shelters. They've already rendered Hamas' rockets useless, so there's no need to physically destroy those weapons on the ground. |
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