Israeli Iron Dome Stops a Rocket With a Rocket

New York times ^ | November 19, 2012 | Isabel Kirschner

[lbryce]

JERUSALEM — An abiding image of the former Israel defense minister Amir Peretz was a photograph of him peering at a military drill — with the black lens caps still on his binoculars. Mr. Peretz resigned months after the 2006 war in Lebanon, which was widely regarded as a failure.

Yet on Sunday, as rockets fired by Gaza militants streaked toward Tel Aviv, Ashdod and other Israeli cities, Mr. Peretz, a resident of the rocket-battered border town of Sderot, was being hailed as a defense visionary for having had the foresight while in office to face down myriad skeptics and push for the development of Iron Dome, Israel’s unique anti-rocket interceptor system.

The naysayers now are few. In the five days since Israel began its fierce assault on the militant infrastructure in Hamas-run Gaza, after years of rocket fire against southern Israel, Iron Dome has successfully intercepted more than 300 rockets fired at densely populated areas, with a success rate of 80 to 90 percent, top officials said. Developed with significant American financing and undergoing its ultimate battle test, the Iron Dome system has saved many lives, protected property and proved to be a strategic game changer, experts said.

Defense Minister Ehud Barak toured a newly deployed mobile unit near Tel Aviv on Sunday and described Iron Dome as “probably the most technologically impressive achievement in recent years in Israel.” He called its performance “almost perfect.”

By preventing mass casualties, experts said, Israel’s leaders have retained public support for the continuing operation and have had more time to weigh a possible ground incursion.

[Patton@Bastogne]

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Apologies ...

I should have said "child-rapist and wife-murderer" engineers in Satan's Iran ...


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[GOYAKLA]

Either way we could sing the song “Raindrops Falling on my Head”.

I’m glad to see there are at least two others in Freeper land that are as nuts and outside the box in our thinking, as I am.
Keep thinking of other things one could jettison, like Al Sharpton and Crissy.
Pleasant dreams.

[PapaBear3625]

During WW-I, Korea, and Vietnam, flechettes were also dropped on enemy positions to good effect.

[lowflyn]

ouch. that could be devastating

[PapaBear3625]

Yep. Not too many people would want to be around when it started raining inch-long steel darts.

[Hegewisch Dupa]

Oh man - that is one wicked weapon

[CodeToad]

Stone Age? Seems Hiroshima is doing just fine but a once great American city has already detroyed itself.