True that. Iron Dome is basically an array of different types of US Patriot interceptors. Israel does a few tweaks to some of them. Successes and failures in Israel represent knowledge to improve our own missile defenses.
By the way, they're designed in Huntsville, Sweet Home Alabama. When I think about that, I think about all the egg-heads at MIT saying Regan's missile defense ides was stupid. They said "you can't hit a bullet with another bullet". What MIT said was impossible, geeks in Huntsville said was a challenge that could be done.
Also McLeansville NC before Clinton. I worked in the same building where they did some of the research.
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