The Iron Dome comprises a mix of transport erector launchers and multiple rocket launchers, all truck-towed and very mobile. The antimissile rockets are designed to counter very short-range rockets (5- 70 km), such as the Hamās uses predominantly (although it has been reported to have very occasionally used more sophisticated long range, Tel Aviv-targeted rockets supplied by Syria), and 155mm shells. It is a quick-deployment, high-camouflage system that can only be taken out by satellite-aided targeting — and neither Hamās nor Israel’s ring of Arab States have anything remotely approaching such precision and rapidity.
Posted on: Tue, 22 Jul 2014 17:00:00 +0000