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Israel saw over 16,000 rocket attacks last year from fundamentalist groups like Hamas, Hezbollah, Iran, and Yemen. The Iron Dome intercepted ~90% of them, resul
by judah 10mo ago
Israel saw over 16,000 rocket attacks last year from fundamentalist groups like Hamas, Hezbollah, Iran, and Yemen. The Iron Dome intercepted ~90% of them, resulting in thousands of lives saved.
Iron Beam is the newer incarnation of this technology that uses lasers to intercept incoming rockets and drones with precision and much lower cost. Wonderful technology.
- RegnisGnaw 10mo agoLets send some over to Ukraine.
- myth_drannon 10mo agoAnd Putin gives a nuke to Iranians then it's game over since Iranians don't care about MAD doctrine. Anyways the risk of the tech falling into Russia's hands is too high. Ukrainians have the smarts to develop it themselves now that it is proven as a viable tech.
- Sabinus 10mo agoWhy would Russia give nukes to Iran? The Russians themselves would be harmed by an open nuclear exchange. No, Putin's threats to Biden and Trump were more along the lines of, 'See the Houthis shooting shipping, imagine that capability spread to rebels and terrorists worldwide'
- 8note 10mo agoiran has a religious rule against making nukes, to the same extent that it has religious decrees calling for an end to israel. iranians arent gonna nuke anyone without first toppling their religious government
- karim79 10mo ago[flagged]
- catlikesshrimp 10mo ago"Christian Zionism"?
- karim79 10mo agoYes Christian Zionism. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_Zionism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_Zionism
- pjc50 10mo agoIran has an active nuclear weapons program which the Israelis keep sabotaging.
- nephihaha 10mo agoIsn't there some kind of uprising in Iran just now?
- dandanua 10mo agoEveryone cares about the MAD doctrine, although some people with power may pretend they do not, while others may pretend they believe that those people with power don't care.
- wiseowise 10mo agoUnhinged take. What’s next? Giving NLAWS to Ukraine will result in Russia giving nukes to Cuba?
- elcritch 10mo agoEach Iron Dome interception cost many times more than the cost of the rockets. This will make it cheaper for other poorer nations to afford and operate.
- kjkjadksj 10mo agoAre you factoring in the cost in human lives?
- throw-12-16 10mo agoHuman lives are pretty cheap all things considered.
- WJW 10mo agoI was bored so I did the math and you are not correct. Even if you don't care about the people themselves, a normal citizen in an industrialized society like Israel has about 40 years of working life. Let's assume for simplicity that some rockets would hit children but others would hit retired people, on average hitting people when they're halfway through their career and would have 20 years of productive work left. According to Wikipedia [1], Israel has an average GDP per capita of about 60 USD per hour worked, which at 40 hours per week, 50 weeks worked per year over 20 years comes to about 40000 hours of work and ~2.4 million USD of GDP generated. At an income tax of about 30% [2], that means an income for the state of about 800k USD equivalent. If the person dies due to rocket attack, the state would miss out on that. Iron dome interceptors are quite cheap compared to that and the laser intercepts should be an order of magnitude cheaper still. This doesn't even take into account the sunk costs that industrialized nations incur by every citizen having to attend school for about the first two decades of their lives, mostly funded by the state. That represents a tremendous investment into human capital that would be lost if you let your citizens get shot up in preventable rocket attacks. So no, human lives are not actually cheap when viewed through the lens of a country, even when completely excluding morals and only looking at it financially. They are in fact quite valuable. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_labour_productivity https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_labour_pr... [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taxation_in_Israel#Income_tax https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taxation_in_Israel#Income_tax
- 63282836292919 10mo ago[flagged]
- megous 10mo ago[flagged]
- vorpalhex 10mo ago> seeing kids shot at intentionally from drones Anytime somebody makes a claim about a drone operating a firearm, you should be extremely skeptical. There's a reason everyone uses explosive drones, not "drone with a machine gun". Small flying machines trying to fire off rounds doesn't work out. > submarine launched drones throwing incendiary munitions at a flotilla Per the Greek coastguard, someone left a lit joint by a fuel canister. Maybe the Greeks are in on the deep conspiracy.. or potheads are just forgetful.
- serf 10mo agowhenever you see someone making the claim that a gun won't work on an aircraft, I urge you to look at our entire aviation history of vehicles with guns strapped on. Planes, helicopters, jet-packs, 'manned platforms', whatever your fancy. we're not talking about glocks ductaped to DJIs here, and all of these mysterious engineer efforts that 'just doesn't work out' are hurdles that man has faced and conquered before. What I would suggest is that if anyone trying to give you a technical reason that ends in "It just doesn't work" they are probably unprepared to accurately brief you on the topic.
- JumpCrisscross 10mo ago> I urge you to look at our entire aviation history of vehicles with guns strapped on Stabilizing moving firing platforms has a fascinating history going back to Bronze Age chariots. As for planes and helicopters, there is a reason their big guns are mounted into the airframe, and why the biggest cannons in the air are on fixed-wing aircraft.
- megous 9mo agohttps://www.jpost.com/business-and-innovation/tech/article-692073 https://www.jpost.com/business-and-innovation/tech/article-6... And what would be Greek coast guard doing in Tunisian waters? And the joint fell spewing fire from the sky, and left behind a grenade casing, right? https://www.bellingcat.com/news/2025/09/10/incendiary-munitions-strike-gaza-bound-flotilla-two-nights-in-a-row/ https://www.bellingcat.com/news/2025/09/10/incendiary-muniti... You need to learn to lie better.
- greekrich92 10mo ago[flagged]
- jampekka 10mo agoHopefully victims of fundamentalist groups like Israel will get this kind of technology too.
- LorenPechtel 10mo agoDisagree--most rockets are determined to fall into unimportant locations and are not engaged. Israel only shoots at the ones that are going to fall on something. (Although, notably, Israel destroyed one that was going to fall on The Dome, the very location that Islam is supposedly trying to protect from the Jews.)
- sporkxrocket 9mo agoIt resulted in hundreds of thousands of innocent people murdered as it's stopping the Palestinians from being able to defend themselves. It's literally enabled genocide (along with US support).