Videos circulating online appear to show the Iron Dome system malfunctioning spectacularly – not only does it fail to intercept incoming missiles, but it actually starts attacking populated areas of Israel. In one video, the interceptor missiles sent out by the system do not reach their target, with one looping in the sky instead and landing in Tel Aviv, where it caused property damage.
Israel is believed to have around a dozen Iron Dome batteries situated throughout the nation, protecting crucial infrastructure and civilians alike. They are said to have the power to neutralize threats coming from as far as 43 miles away, and each one is capable of defending an area of roughly 60 square miles.
The missile defense systems, which function in all types of weather, are made to protect from incoming short-range weapons. Using radar, Iron Dome tracks rockets and determines which are likely to hit populated areas. It then strikes the rockets that are expected to cause the most damage using interceptor missiles; those that it thinks will land over the sea or open areas are allowed to proceed in the interest of conserving missiles.
While the Israeli military has said in the past that its success rate is up to 90 percent, it seems that figure now needs to be revised. The IDF has said that at least 8,000 rockets have been fired on the country since the Hamas attacks on October 7. While it has successfully prevented some rockets from landing, others have evaded it and landed on populated areas, leading to injury and death.
The system’s main vulnerability is that it may become overwhelmed if it is faced with a mass barrage of rockets, and some will inevitably get through in these situations. This is compounded by the fact that the missiles that Hamas has been firing on Israel cost them around $600 each, while the interceptor missiles used by Iron Dome cost 100 times more at $60,000 a piece. Eventually, they simply won’t be able to keep up.
Hamas militants are proving to be powerful foes for Israel’s army
Meanwhile, bodycam footage from Hamas militants circulating online shows how easily they are managing to hit Israeli tanks with RPGs from a close range during street combat, thereby evading Israeli anti-missile defense systems. One video claims to show 10 army vehicles being destroyed by anti-tank rockets.
A different video was shared on Twitter with the caption “INSANE: Al-Qassam in the Al-Zeitoun neighborhood destroyed one IDF tank from ZERO distance with a “guerrilla action device” and a “Al-Yassin 105” shell. Craziest thing I ever saw …”
Another video also claims to depict an IDF tank exploding after an Al-Yassin 105 hit.
The Israeli military and its intelligence services have long been considered among the world’s finest, thanks in no small part to the unique security challenges they face, but the recent attacks on the country by Hamas and the subsequent war have exposed just how underprepared they actually were.
From their failure to fully realize that an attack was imminent to their technology and machinery falling short in both defense and on the battlefield, this has been one big reality check for them. This may be a war between a prosperous country with American backing and a group of terrorists, but it is not nearly as one-sided as many people expected it would be.
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over 1 year ago
Hamas is a liberation organization not a group of terrorists.
over 1 year ago
Four years ago there was peace in the ME. Israel was at peace with almost all Arab countries, with the exception of Iran who hated both Israel and feel they are superior to the Arabs whom they often refer to as Bedouins.
When Clinton was president, Arafat met with the Israeli leader to establish a Palestinean state and Israel met ALL of Arafat's demands and he still refused to close the deal. Palestineans schools have maps of countries in the ME, but none show the country of Israel, so enough with "Israel is oppressing the Palestineans". Read the article and make your own call.
over 1 year ago
Every race of people has an intelligentsia: people who are very educated and, who understand chemistry, physics, aerodynamics, engineering, mechanics, biochemistry, advanced math etc and therefore have the knowhow to put stuff together (e.g. IEDs) in order to defend their homeland. Palestinians are defending their homeland similarly to how Iraqis were defending their homeland when invaded. Did that make the Iraqis terrorists or "al-qaeda"? No. Neither are Palestinians who are fighting for their survival terrorists or "hamas". Both "al-qaeda" and "hamas" are non-existent made-up purely imaginary boogeymen groups used to justify terror and dehumanization against a targeted population. 9/11 was an inside job carried out together with and ultimately masterminded by mossad and their 'duo-citizen' Zionist agents. An imaginary group called "al-qaeda" was then blamed in order to justify the invasion and dehumanization of Iraq etc.
In the aftermath of 9/11 the US media showed an out-of-context video segment of Palestinians 🎉, dancing, and laughing. However it was dishonest. The full video clip actually shows Jews holding candy and telling the Palestinians to dance, celebrate, and laugh; the Jews then throw candy at them. So the first portion of the video which shows the Jews holding candy 🍬 and telling the Palestinians to dance, laugh and celebrate; was not shown by the US media; neither was the last portion of the video clip which showed the Jews throwing candy at the Palestinians. Palestinians have been victim to enormous defamations and an avalanche of unsubstantiated allegations from their enemies (similar to how the Bush administration said Iraq was harboring the "al-qaeda" terrorists and weapons of mass destruction).
Palestine would never ever attack the invaders to provoke them. They are being falsely accused in the same way Assad was falsely accused of using chemical weapons against his own people even though the US said it was a red line (many disproven unscientific fake videos were staged of fake victims but eventually NATO and its imported terror groups did use chemical weapons against Syrians and it was blamed on Assad). No attack happened against the invaders/occupiers.
RT, "Pentagon paid PR firm $540mn to make fake terrorist videos," 2 Oct. 2016 ( https://www.rt.com/usa/361385-pentagon-pr-firm-terrorist-videos/
over 1 year ago
maybe it's all those second-rate spare parts we got from china?...or that the Iron dome never was all that good, and was propped up with lies from the media/government.
over 1 year ago
Psa 34:21 Evil shall slay the wicked; And they that hate the righteous shall be condemned........The only question is which one is Evil and which one is wicked.