Iron Dome was successful. Its basis of success was correctly predicting the trajectory of an incoming rocket.
It was a real life test. Not a drill.
For the countries (Russia? Iran?) who supplied the weapons to Hamas, it was essentially a weapons real life test of their rockets.
Just like the way USA used to test its concept weapons in Vietnam in real combat. Well, among other things, US troops tested Agent Orange - with unexpected long lasting results far exceeding the war years.
Russian and Iranian defence scientists must have been carefully monitoring all of the interceptions made by Iron Dome.
And gone back to their drawing boards formulating a new generation of rockets and missiles to beat the Iron Dome defence.
One way is to have rockets programmed with multiple UNPREDICTABLE trajectories i.e. at some point near the target area, another booster will fire to change its direction. And later another booster to change its final direction, by which time it will be so close to target that interception is impossible.
Extreme accuracy is not important, if all you want is for the rocket to fall into a general (civilian populated) area ten miles in diameter. As long as the rocket is not intercepted and lands somewhere, that will do.
Multiple burst rockets - from one main rocket, 10 smaller rockets will emerge, near to target area but outside of Iron Dome interception radius. There is not enough time to intercept these 10 rockets all flying in different directions.
Can use duds and overwhelm by a surge in numbers. Fire 300 rockets at same time in which 150 are duds and the iron dome operators don't know which ones to intercept.
It was a real life test. Not a drill.
For the countries (Russia? Iran?) who supplied the weapons to Hamas, it was essentially a weapons real life test of their rockets.
Just like the way USA used to test its concept weapons in Vietnam in real combat. Well, among other things, US troops tested Agent Orange - with unexpected long lasting results far exceeding the war years.
Russian and Iranian defence scientists must have been carefully monitoring all of the interceptions made by Iron Dome.
And gone back to their drawing boards formulating a new generation of rockets and missiles to beat the Iron Dome defence.
One way is to have rockets programmed with multiple UNPREDICTABLE trajectories i.e. at some point near the target area, another booster will fire to change its direction. And later another booster to change its final direction, by which time it will be so close to target that interception is impossible.
Extreme accuracy is not important, if all you want is for the rocket to fall into a general (civilian populated) area ten miles in diameter. As long as the rocket is not intercepted and lands somewhere, that will do.
Multiple burst rockets - from one main rocket, 10 smaller rockets will emerge, near to target area but outside of Iron Dome interception radius. There is not enough time to intercept these 10 rockets all flying in different directions.
Can use duds and overwhelm by a surge in numbers. Fire 300 rockets at same time in which 150 are duds and the iron dome operators don't know which ones to intercept.
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