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re: Were we wrong about Iran's strike on Israel?
Posted on 4/17/24 at 3:14 pm to OzonaOkapi
Posted on 4/17/24 at 3:14 pm to OzonaOkapi
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Iron Dome programmed to just ignore incoming ordnance that isn't going to hit anything important
Yes--if nothing is in the way, ID doesn't fire. It also doesn't do much to combat ballistic missiles anyway, and was never intended to. ID is designed for low altitude garage-made projectiles at close range.
The Arrow (Patriot-derivative) and David's Sling systems are Israel's long-range/high altitude interceptor platforms.
This post was edited on 4/17/24 at 3:16 pm
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Posted on 4/18/24 at 12:48 am to Indefatigable
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Yes--if nothing is in the way, ID doesn't fire. It also doesn't do much to combat ballistic missiles anyway, and was never intended to. ID is designed for low altitude garage-made projectiles at close range.
The Arrow (Patriot-derivative) and David's Sling systems are Israel's long-range/high altitude interceptor platforms.
Missile defense is only useful against rogue nations with limited capability. Even The US mainland defense is basically incapable of determining decoys or being effective against concentrated attacks. Our (and their) missile defense would be useless against hypersonic. The only "protection" remains assured mutual destruction. I always wonder how the world would react if a hypersonic launched from an unknown sub. We arent shooting it down. Would we just barrage any country capable? Would we just huddle and pray that it's not an EMP? Sure, we'd still be able to retaliate afterwards but the damage would be done. The vast majority of the population would die.
Military might is relatively inconsequential if you're dead serious about your mission.
This post was edited on 4/18/24 at 12:58 am
Posted on 4/18/24 at 4:43 am to Indefatigable
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Iron Dome programmed to just ignore incoming ordnance that isn't going to hit anything important
Yes--if nothing is in the way, ID doesn't fire.
This is a good point and one of the reasons I brought this here was because Ritter said these munitions landed on the air base. We all know there is typically a lot of empty space at such locations, but I would think that level of precision is not embedded in the system and that if anything was destined for the big block of space denoted by the air base's boundaries, it would be engaged. Only takes a small margin of error to go from empty space to landing on a runway, for example. Also, just the possibility of shrapnel, which can travel hundreds of meters, damaging an F35 is pretty serious. When they were testing the F-117 they had good results, then one day it was pretty strong on the radar. It was on a mount so they went to look at it - a fastener came loose and that's all it took. The smallest damage or change to the aircraft can ruin its stealth capabilities.
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