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the iron dome is mainly used to shoot down shitty rockets traveling around 200 m/s, and at great relative cost. ICBMs are going about ~7 km/s at reentry. it wou
by leetcrew 5y ago
the iron dome is mainly used to shoot down shitty rockets traveling around 200 m/s, and at great relative cost. ICBMs are going about ~7 km/s at reentry. it would require an entirely different level of capability to achieve any reasonable kill probability against those.
- willcipriano 5y agoThey are also coming from much further away, so we have a lot more advance notice. They don't really have a way to defend themselves in flight and are pretty heavy, so a smaller missle going a shorter distance with a smaller payload should be able to outmaneuver it easily. I'm sure it's not perfect but I'm certain the capacity exists.
- more_corn 5y agoI’m not sure you’re properly thinking through orbital velocities.
- LargoLasskhyfv 5y agoThat existed, once: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sprint_(missile) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sprint_(missile) It would need many of something like these: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Safeguard_Program https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Safeguard_Program to function. Pharaonic!