FULL INFORMATION ABOUT IRON DOME ( Best Israeli Air Defense System )

 The iron dome this is an effective truck-tode multi-mission mobile air defense system developed by rafael advanced defense systems and israel aerospace industries defense system it can be operated in all weather conditions including fog dust storm low clouds and rain the device is designed to intercept and destroy short range rockets and artillery shells fired from distances ranging from 4 to 70 kilometers and destined for an israeli populated area iron dome was chosen by israel's defense ministry to defend and protect israel's civilian population on its northern and southern borders C-ram precise guided warheads air breathing threats cruise missiles and unmanned aerial vehicles are among the threats that iron dome tracks analyzes and intercepts the iron dome is quite expensive each battery or the full unit can cost over 50 million dollars and one intercepted tamir missile costs around 80 000 in contrast a rocket can cost less than a thousand dollars despite the high cost it is a small price to pay for a country to defend itself raise citizen morale and avoid being cowed down by external powers seeking to damage it so why did israel choose to develop this badass air defense system well let me take you back into history during the second lebanon war in 2006 hezbollah launched missiles and nearly 4 000 rockets were fired on haifa and other northern israeli cities the majority of which were short-range cat you shall rockets in the attack approximately 44 israeli civilians were killed and approximately 250 000 people were evacuated and moved to other areas of israel more than four thousand mortars and custom rockets were fired into southern israel from gaza between 2000 and 2008. due to the addition of 122-millimeter grad launchers to the Qasim's range, nearly 1 million southern Israelis came within the range so in February 2007 the Israeli defense ministry agreed to build a mobile air defense system in response to rocket attacks in march 2009 the missile defense system was successfully evaluated.

without physically intercepting a missile or rocket the tests were conducted the machine successfully intercepted a range of rockets during a defense ministry test in july 2009 so this is how it led to the development of irondome in august 2009 the iaf formed a new battalion to run the iron dome system in a test conducted in january 2010 several rocket bombardments resembling councilms and katyushas were successfully intercepted in july 2010 the iron dome underwent its final testing only incoming missile threats were detected and intercepted by the system so how does the iron dome work well the iron dome is composed of three fundamental elements a detection and tracking radar a battle management and weapon control system and a missile firing unit it is fitted with electro-optic sensors and has multiple steering fins for high maneuverability it has a quick reaction time and can intercept salvos the missile can also adjust to changing threats and deal with several threads at once other features of the iron dome include a vertical launch interceptor warhead and proximity fuse handheld launcher and compatibility with various radars and detection systems the system's special warhead allows it to detonate any target in the air iron dome radar tracks the rocket's cores after detecting and marking it the system's bmc analyzes the threat's path and calculates an expected point of impact based on the radar data after detecting the threat the system starts firing its interceptor to block and detonate the rocket another factor that is considered is if the incoming rocket has the potential risk of hitting populated areas or vital infrastructure of israel on 27 march 2011 iron dome was declared operational and deployed near beersheba so how successful is the iron dome for the first time on april 7 2011 the device successfully intercepted a bm-21 grant launched from gaza the jerusalem post announced on march 10 2012 that the device had shot down 90 of rockets fired from gaza that would have landed in populated areas official announcements claimed that it had intercepted over 400 rockets by november 2012. the iron dome systems had intercepted over 1 200 rockets by late October 2014. today the system has so far intercepted more than 2 000 incoming targets israeli officials and defense companies said that the iron dome has a success rate of over 90 percent on 11th may 2021 more than 1 000 rockets had been fired from gazettes since the start of the israel gaza conflict the israeli military again said that 90 of rockets that reached israeli airspace were destroyed by iron dome now what are the problems faced by the iron dome despite the fact that iron dome has been in use for a decade palestinian groups continue to fire rockets into israel during times of tension even at the highest estimates of the success rate of iron dome some can get through to inhabited some rockets including the ones that reached tel aviv on 11th may about 65 kilometers from the gaza border have a much longer range a palestinian rocket that hit a house near tel aviv in 2019 had a range of 120 kilometer according to the israeli military on monday israel had already seen rockets fired towards jerusalem one of which destroyed a home in a southwestern suburb and the officials were surprised by the number of long-range rockets that had entered television since then since iron dome is less successful at ranges of less than four kilometers short-range rockets are also a challenge according to michael herzog a former brigadier general in the israel defense forces who is now a fellow at the washington institute the future of irondome israel aims to expand the range of irondome's inception from the current limit of 70 kilometers to 250 kilometers as well as to make it more flexible so that it can intercept rockets from two directions at the same time in addition to their land-based deployment iron dome batteries in the multi-tiered available defense system that israel is developing which includes aero 2 aero 3 iron beam barrack 8 and david sling as said before the iron dome systems could be fiscally and physically overwhelmed by dozens of incoming salvos hands-directed energy weapons are being investigated as a complement to iron dome and are priced for less costly defense capabilities provided both in terms of system cost and cost per shot at the 2014 singapore air show the file unveiled its iron beam laser air defense system iron beam is a directed energy weapon meant to complement the iron dome system by using a high-energy laser to destroy rockets mortars and other airborne threats in december 2014 former israeli air force chief and head of boeing israel david ivory showed interest in the american laser weapon system earlier that month the u.s navy revealed that the laser weapon system had been mounted on the uss pawns and locked onto and destroyed designated targets with near instantaneous lethality with each laser shot costing less than one dollar.