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Wednesday, July 9, 2014
Iron Dome manager says system working well
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleDanny Gold, the IDF brigadier-general who led the development of Iron Dome, acknowledges in a Channel 2 interview that the system is performing extremely effectively.
But each intercept costs a fair amount of money, he’s asked. Correct, he says, but Iron Dome calculates if the rocket fire is heading for a residential area, and doesn’t intercept unless there’s a risk of that.
Thus, while Hamas has fired 170 rockets into Israel, he says, Iron Dome has only launched to intercept a small fraction of them.
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