Comments on: Dome, Sweet Dome https://totalwonkerr.net/2009/03/27/dome-sweet-dome/ Mon, 30 Mar 2009 17:42:18 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 By: Yossi https://totalwonkerr.net/2009/03/27/dome-sweet-dome/#comment-708 Mon, 30 Mar 2009 17:42:18 +0000 http://www.totalwonkerr.net/dome-sweet-dome/#comment-708 Note that the 95% figure is not the kill rate but just a way to say that 5% of the inhabitants live too close for successful interception. The actual efficiency is probably way lower.

Intercepting the cheap homemade Kassams with the costly Iron Dome rockets (more than $50,000 each) doesn’t make sense economically especially as there are more cost effective alternatives.

The IL MoD refused to test the C-RAM system used in Iraq (which does stop mortar shells) nor the laser canon he developed jointly with the US. Rumors were that Iron Dome development is financed by Singapore and it may back down if Israel uses another system. It’s seems more reasonable that the government cynically used the rocket attacks as an excuse for the siege and constant drone killings in Gaza and the Kassams were launched mainly in revenge. The people of Shderot are mostly lower class and have negligible political power.

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