http://youtu.be/8kAyqbKwd1o

starts at 50 seconds

WELL, THAT DEPENDS ON YOUR DEFINITION OF A LOT!

HAMAS HAS FIRED ABOUT 550 ROCKETS AT ISRAEL IN THE LAST SEVERAL DAYS. ISRAEL'S "IRON DOME" HAS ONLY INTERCEPTED 197 OF THOSE. THAT'S A SUCCESS RATE OF ONLY ABOUT 36%!

AS ISRAEL IS ONLY ABOUT A 5.5 MILLION ACRE COUNTRY, THE NUMBER OF SDI POINTS REQUIRED TO REACH 36% COVERAGE IS 18,673,352. IF THEY BOUGHT THEM AT AN AVERAGE PRICE OF $3,000.00 PER POINT, THAT'S A MEASLY 56 BILLION DOLLARS.

WEAKSAUCE. WE SPEND THAT MUCH HERE IN JUST UNDER 6 DAYS.

OF COURSE, I DON'T KNOW.. IS ISRAEL CONSIDERED A THEOCRACY? I SUPPOSE THAT MIGHT CHANGE THINGS.

HA!

SAM

You're missing one of the most important -- and in my opinion, the coolest -- aspects of the system! When a missile is fired, it's trajectory is calculated and the system figures out if it's heading toward a populated area. If it's not headed toward a populated area, it just lets it land. If it's going to hit a populated area, it fires an interceptor.

The 90% success rate they claim is from testing, I believe. But they would have you believe that if they targeted 197 rockets that they took down 177ish. The rockets being fired from Gaza cost very little (a few hundred dollars a piece) vs a high tech $90,000 USD interceptor that cost hundreds of millions to develop. It's not cost effective to fire interceptors at EVERY rocket.

In terms of country size, it stands to reason that 353 missiles, or about 65% of all missiles fired into Israel land in unpopulated areas. I don't know much about where the population in Israel is, but they apparently want to deploy 9 of these batteries and that will apparently cover the effective range of the rockets fired from Gaza.

Either way, pretty cool system.

Love science

Israel is a pretty nice place for the US to test its latest defense systems...with all the skirmishes going on every so often.

PANG, THAT IS INDEED COOL. I DIDN'T REALIZE THEY WERE CALUCULATING WHERE THE ROCKETS WOULD GO, AND THEN DECIDING WHETHER OR NOT TO EXPLODE THEM.

I STILL PREFER EXPLODING EVERYTHING, BUT THAT'S JUST ME.

AND THIS CERTAINLY CHANGES THE FIGURES. 90% SUCCESS WOULD TAKE OVER 425 MILLION POINTS OF SDI! AT $3K PER POINT, THAT'S ABOUT 1.3 TRILLION DOLLARS.. JUST SLIGHTLY UNDER OUR ANNUAL FEDERAL DEFICIT! IMPRESSIVE!

but they do all go boom. some just make it to the ground ;)

But that 90% coverage is only needed over an area about 10% of Isreal so 113 billion.

From a purely strategic perspective it would be interesting to see how many low grade, cheapo rockets it would take to deplete the stockpile of missile interceptors.

yea, all equipments will be field tested in real "war" and companies get paid for providing equipments and that way can improve those and put them again on real field test.

that's some pretty amazing tech. it works against missiles being lobbed over... but would it work against missiles fired from jets? Those travel quite a bit faster... i wonder.

yankeeland has been testing defense against nuclear missiles so most likely against all kind of missiles too.

I laughed so hard. That's a great way to measure what is ALOT of money :)

The Iron Dome system has 90% sucuss rate , Like Pang said we intercept only misseles that are a theart to pop areas...

I'v been now at least once a day in our bomb shelter for the last 4-5 days , and I live in Tel-Aviv :| I might get called back to the army if we do a troop invasion , some of my friends were allready called back , I hope I don't :| WAR is about to happen...

Save turns!

Also get mil strat tech you'll get a lot more land!

you think they gonna start LGing after the BRs?

Naaah, they have been bottomfeeding Gaza for years now, I guess they are going for a tagkill now

hamas cant tagkill anybody. they will just AB israel and ruin there set.

You idiots think they are playing a game there?

Well, they've been playing it for thousands of years...you'd think they'd get tired of it.

Israel is pretty good at land grabbing :/

have you ever been in a war asshat? I have.

I'm sure you have. What were you doing in this war of yours? Peeling potatoes in the kitchen?

Well what do you know, chef Ramsey here really was peeling potatoes in the kitchen, lol. Got a purple heart for that did you after you peeled some skin? That's your proof of being in a war, LMFAO!

Gaza is so deep in DR I don't see why they bother anymore.



In E2025 Set-Years, we've been playing at least that long and we're not bored yet.



At this point . . . yeah, yeah they do. They've been pushing the same button over and over again for decades and the same thing keeps happening. Its either masturbation or some kind of game.

more than your nigerian businessman ass has ever done more than likely. quit trying to run phishing scams on craigslist and get a real job.

I enjoy the diversity of this board. Who'd have thunk we'd have in our midst a Nigerian fisherman and a grizzled vet of the potato peeler wars of the mid 50s.

guess Hamas found use for the extra cash the Emir of Qatari brought last month

im only 28 but a little grizzled

those potatatoes dont peel themselves...yet.

i want 90% SDI too

Hahaha!

this thread is a fluffing riot.

agreed

You're missing one of the most important -- and in my opinion, the coolest -- aspects of the system! When a missile is fired, it's trajectory is calculated and the system figures out if it's heading toward a populated area. If it's not headed toward a populated area, it just lets it land. If it's going to hit a populated area, it fires an interceptor.=PANG

That is just amazing to me. There was a clip around that showed the hits and then they tracked a missile that was let go to land in an empty field. Absolutely amazing technology to me.
Course there is always an issue with the 10% that slip past but thats better then letting 100% past