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It's painful to see someone try a scientific approach (which is good!) but already fails in the assumptions. There are probably many ways a defense rocket could
by erikb 12y ago
It's painful to see someone try a scientific approach (which is good!) but already fails in the assumptions. There are probably many ways a defense rocket could harm an incoming missile without hitting it directly up front. Destroying it's back might and should result in the warhead not reaching it's designated target, which is already a success. Even exploding near a missile might change the air environment of this rocket enough to harm it's target trajectory. Last but not least every kind of pressure might result in damage to the rocket's proper functioning and thereby result in it's early triggering or not triggering at all.
While I also believe that a tool like the Iron Dome might be inefficient for it's pure militaristic purpose (it might have psychological purposes as well) the article is not much help in deciding whether this assumption is true or not, because the assumptions are already flawed.
- Too 12y agoChanging the trajectory so that the rocket accidentally hits a civillian target instead of the designated millitary one night not be considered a success by everyone..
- ars 12y agoUm, the rockets are not aimed at military targets, they are aimed at civilian targets. How can you possibly not know this? Since the rocket is only intercepted when it's expected to teach a populated area, any change will be for the better.
- Arnt 12y agoName some of the ways? Speaking as layman, it sounds plausible that a hit on the back would work while the target missile is ascending, but not when it's already descending towards the target.
- ars 12y agoIf you watch videos it seems the hits are made during the ascent.
- erikb 12y agoI'm far from being an expert, so everything I say could be wrong and I am aware of this! But I assume that because of wind influence, etc, I suspect that a rocket needs to have manoeuvring capabilities to reach a specific target, even on their descend. I also assume that works with little wings on its side and GPS. Destroying those wings or the GPS might be enough that it lands tens or hundreds meters aside from it's designated targets. Maybe even kilometres, but I really don't know enough about that to say.