Iron Dome at Work

[Ben]

Iron Dome taking out a 15 missile barrage. Side note of interest to me was the calm of the Israelis during the alert. It seems a pretty good indicator of how much crap they have to take when they react not much differently to the air raid siren than we do when we hear a fire truck.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_e9UhLt_J0g

PS - do yourselves a favor and ignore the comment section.

[wmenorr67]

Hell when I was in the Green Zone back in 06-07 we quit running everytime we heard the damn warnings.  Usually by the time the warnings went off we had already heard the thump of the mortar tube and the whistle of it going overhead.

[Scout26]

Coming soon to an American city near you !!!

[Hawkmoon]

Coming soon to an American city near you !!!

Unfortunately, you are probably correct.

[AJ Dual]

Despite the fact Iron Dome is so successful that Raytheon, the losing bidder to Rafael, is now paying to license the system for American DoD use, the economics of this are going to force them to go with solid-state lasers sooner or later.

A $50,000 missile against a Grad made from a sewer-pipe or whatever just isn't going to work in the long run.

[brimic]

Quite the fireworks show!
Was that vapor trail on the far right of the screen seen in the last few seconds of the video a launch by the blue team?

[HankB]

Despite the fact Iron Dome is so successful that Raytheon, the losing bidder to Rafael, is now paying to license the system for American DoD use, the economics of this are going to force them to go with solid-state lasers sooner or later.

A $50,000 missile against a Grad made from a sewer-pipe or whatever just isn't going to work in the long run.

Then they probably wouldn't like my idea of followup by dropping a MOAB on each Grad missile launch site . . .