The american patriot missiles from the first gulf war were facing cold-war era Russian SCUD's. Their success rate was rather low. Most of what the Palestinian

The american patriot missiles from the first gulf war were facing cold-war era Russian SCUD's. Their success rate was rather low. Most of what the Palestinian militants are launching are Katyusha class rockets that are basically the same design as Russia was using in WWII (Germany had far better designs even then). These are much more primitive than SCUD's. The Iron Dome also has the benefit of twenty years of technological progress to draw upon vs the Patriots. A higher success rate here should not come as a surprise. What is interesting is how little we hear about this system from the media. While it's probably a great thing to drum up PR about domestically, it probably isn't in Israel's interests for this system to be highly publicized in foreign media since it makes Israel's response to a rather toothless rocket threat look disproportionate.