[fso301]

I’m not debating whether it works. I know it works, but I just don’t see how it is possible 90% of the time. Unless you know the trajectory before hand.

My understanding is less than 90% which is why two missiles are typically fired. The combines score may be 90 percent.

What are the flight times for a launch from Gaza to the closest Israeli city? Can’t be more than 2-3 minutes?

That is an eternity for computers and missiles. At launch, the Iron Dome radar should be able to classify the type target. Within a second it should be able to plot a trajectory. Assuming the Iron Dome missile flies at mach 3.0, it can go from launch straight up to 30K feet in less than 10 seconds.

[Bobalu]

Yup, In a way computers SLOW down time.

Get up above a few billion operations/second and it’s like you have all the time in the world. :-)