Every time a brief war breaks out, Israel loudly cheers the Iron Dome missile system for successfully shooting down extremely short-range rockets of extremely limited explosive capability at a high rate.
Yet this is the exact same system the Israeli military defunded in the first place as economically non-viable, and only got in the first place when the US agreed to pay for the entire thing. It is also getting a lot of press as a “feel-good” system that doesn’t really do much.
It’s not hard to see why. The Israeli military’s claimed success rates are in serious doubt, and when officials play them up as a key to a future war with Iran it completely defies explanation since the missile system is explicitly only effective on missiles with a range of a few dozen km, not even theoretically usable against the long-range missiles Iran would fire back if Israel finally decides to start that war.
Other people like to “feel good” though, so there is at least some interest by other nations in acquiring such a system. The limited number of nations that have conceivable use for that is small, however, and even they want some actual proof that the missiles really work like Israel claims. Since the rockets only rarely ever hit anything to begin with, claiming huge numbers of shoot-downs isn’t readily disproven, but that in and of itself might not be enough to make a sale.
Iron dome has a Psycological value for Israeli citizens, they believe they are safer, it also means that it will allow the Israeli government to do things that there might be retaliation for, Iron Dome will protect us!
If Israel ever attacks Iran and Iran retaliates we will see if Iron Dome survives the initial onslaught and then the second wave, and can it simultaniously survive an attack from Hezbollah in Syria,
Agreed, though note we waste roughtly $10B/yr on our own pointless ballistic missile defense system.
Israel's Iron Dome is merely an experiment, a trial, a proto-type, and a beta test of the Global Empire's Iron Dome to protect the ruling global elites when the masses in those sectors of this DGE Disguised Global Empire (US, UK, EU, Israel et al) discover and fully recognize that the 'faux-democracy' is what the Empire is using as a political 'Vichy' facade and using 'faux-democracy' as the new "opiate of the masses".
Best luck and love to the fast expanding 'Occupy Empire' educational and revolutionary movement against this deceitful, guileful, disguised EMPIRE, which doesn't wear Red Coats, Red Stars, nor funny looking Nazi helmets —- yet.
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Empire,
Alan MacDonald
Sanford, Maine