The Iron Dome is an economically unsustainable defense against rockets as cheap as the Palis are using.
/johnny
“The Iron Dome is an economically unsustainable defense against rockets as cheap as the Palis are using. “
I totally agree. Israel needs to mas-manufacture cheap artillery shells and unguided rockets, then they need to return attacks 10 to 1.
“The Iron Dome is an economically unsustainable defense against rockets as cheap as the Palis are using.”
Interesting observation.
However….
The Israelis really don’t have much of a choice but to keep using their “economically unsustainable” defense system since they have nothing else (outside of extended and possibly unsustainable combat) with which to diminish the missile attacks.
In that sense, their defense policy is not unlike the United State’s _economic_ policy, which is to keep borrowing to prop up an unsustainable system, because there really aren’t any acceptable policies that stand a chance of being implemented.
Not necessarily. If the US, South Korea and others bought in, the price per unit drops substantially.
The vast majority of the price of these Iron Dome missiles is in the development costs
“The Iron Dome is an economically unsustainable defense against rockets as cheap as the Palis are using.”
Easy to say when the Palis can buy their missiles at Radio Shack and set them up without Israeli drone overhead.
...but they can’t - and Israel will have NO PROBLEM shooting down as many as needed. The only question now is whether they can ramp up production fast enough. Cost is not a factor, once you do the math.
Fire and forget is as simple as it gets and a lot cheaper than having to use ones that have to have all the tracking gear to chase and destroy. Too bad a system like a “phalanx” can’t be used to fill the airspace with depleted (OMG!) uranium. But probably lots of “innocent” casualties when the rounds come down. Pound per pound, the F&F are pennies on the dollar vs mucho dollars for the Iron Dome.