How effective is Israel's Iron Dome anti missile/rocket defence system? If we are to believe what is being printed by the western media, it is as good as 90% effective, ie Israel claimed to have shot down 90% of the rockets launched by Hamas. How believeable is this claim?
Look at the numbers, Hamas claimed to have launched more than 3,000 rockets into Israel. Some sources said 4,000 rockets were fired. Ok, plus and minus, about 3,000 is about just right. If Israel's claim of shooting down 90% of the rockets it would mean about 2,700 rockets intercepted. It would also mean that Israel fired at least 3,000 missiles. It could not be that every missile would hit its target.
Question, does Israel have 3,000 missiles to fire and how much does each missile cost? Assuming each missile costs US$100K, 3,000 missiles will cost the Israelis US$300m! If the price is double, it would mean US$600m!
Does Israel carry 3,000 missiles in its inventory and all ready to fire?
The next question, under normal operation, it would be considered very successful if the hit rate is 50%. Assuming that this was the case, a very generous hit rate, it would mean 1,500 rockets got through. Assuming 50% of these rockets hit their targets, it would mean 750 targets destroyed or damaged.
What is the true picture of the success raid of the Hamas rockets and how much damage did they do to Israel? And how many rockets were really intercepted successfully? Israel reported only 12 casualties. This means that either the rockets were all duds or blanks, or the chosen race are protected by God and nothing can kill them. This is a real miracle. 3,000 to 4,000 rockets could only killed 12 people of the chosen race!
Can you imagine what the sky would look like with a few hundred rockets flying at one time and equal number of anti rocket missiles flying at them? The picture above at most showed about 30 anti rocket missiles in the sky. The rockets coming in were too small and no smoke trail and thus difficult to see.
How successful was the Hamas rocket attack on Israel?
The moral of this genocide on the Palestinians is that no country must be allowed to possess overwhelming military superiority, especially in weapons and fire power. Countries like Israel and the USA think with their fire power, they can kill and destroy their enemies without themselves being destroyed. That is the main reason why the Americans would not allow North Korea, Iran or any of their enemy nations to have nuclear weapons while they want to have all the nuclear weapons to destroy their enemies. It is also the same thinking in the Israelis, everyday thinking of destroying the neighbouring Arab countries when the latter became stronger, and also wanting to destroy Iran's nuclear sites.
All because they are more superior in military and think they can hit others, others cannot hit back. If they are not militarily stronger than the Arabs, they would not dare to think of attacking others. Now they are calling the shots, when to stop killing the Palestinians and no country can stop them from doing so with the Americans and the West backing them up. The Arab countries and Iran must acquire more military weapons if they want peace and not be victims of American/Israeli strikes and genocides.