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These "advanced" rockets will be more costly, which means your more limited on how many you can afford to fire. Thus Israel can intercept these "advanced" rocke
by RegnisGnaw 5y ago
These "advanced" rockets will be more costly, which means your more limited on how many you can afford to fire. Thus Israel can intercept these "advanced" rockets with other solutions: Iron Dome, Arrow 2, Arrow 3, and David's Sling.
The Iron Beam is the low cost per intercept solution, meant to intercept cheap unguided ballistic rockets.
- jimnotgym 5y agoOther people on here have suggested that tin foil will do as protection, or metal polish for that matter. Im guessing this will make no difference in the number of rockets at all
- nickff 5y agoRandom commenters on HN are not smarter than the Palestinians nor the Israelis involved in this conflict. I am sure that 'tin foil' (by which I believe you mean aluminum foil) will not work.
- awakeasleep 5y agoWhat you say is true but we dont know how much marketing fluff we’re dealing with in this press release, either.
- weatherlite 5y agoIt's not just Israel building laser interceptors, it's also the U.S. In fact the U.S has been researching this for decades. I find it hard to believe no one has thought of the aluminum foil measure, but I'm willing to entertain the idea since army people are army people.
- nradov 5y agoOther people on here have no experience with high energy lasers. Thermal shock will burn right through the metal foil or polish. We're not talking about a toy laser pointer.
- weatherlite 5y agoYou must really wrap that foil hard for it not to fall off with the missile flying at Mach 4. They'd probably need to use a bunch of duck tape to secure the foil, and with inflation making duck tape more expensive it will hurt their economies. Win for Israel.