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Project buildings The Israeli dome air defense system fails Missile Tel Aviv, Israel, Friday, 2025, Friday.
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A Iron dome missile defense The Hebrew “Kippat Barzel” system is one of the most important tools Israel ‘S defensive arsenal.
Designed by air attacks to protect citizens of Israelis, protecting missiles, input rockets and other mobile threats, mobile since March 2011 has been functioned.
Israel’s Ministry of Defense says The system has been renovated several times and “successfully avoided the abundant rocket to the Israeli communities.”
Iron dome is developed by Israel in the United States Rafael Advanced Defense Systems US protection and Washington continues to provide funding To do this.
Israel’s defense forces comment Iron dome is a compilation of various features: the same technology, used machinery used in interpreting incoming rockets, soldiers who operate in the system and the soldiers oversee the network.
How does it work?
In practice, the iron dome uses the Radar to continue rocket and determines whether the missile route threatens a protected area, such as the center of strategically important site or population.
If the rocket threats, the Command and Control Center responds by launching its own Tamire missile.
The system is not configured, however, to fire from a protected area to fire, and no rockets that jeopardize characters or builds are usually not excluded and allowed to land.
The explosion caused by a strike projectile, Tel Aviv, Israeli, Saturday, Saturday, Saturday, 2025, June 20, 2025.
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A 2023 Congress Research Service inform He described the Iron dome as a mobile rocket, an anti-mortar and an anti-articles system, launch 2.5 to 43 kilometers.
At least 10 batteries are calculated that they are widespread at the national level, each of which is designed to defend the 60 square miles of a populated area. Each battery has three to four launchers and each launcher has 20 Tamir interceptor.
The Center for International Strategic Studies, the US Tank of Think Tank appreciate The only iron dome to produce more than $ 100 million.
Since 2011, the United States has to the full Millions of dollars from Israelites for iron dome batteries, interceptors, co-production costs and general maintenance.
A large part of that money has accepted the Congress, where the majority of bipartisan It has been a coherent voted Israeli iron dome in favor of giving funding.
The iron dome has his weaknesses, however.
Analysts warned that the defense system may have challenges to respond to rocket fire.
European Policy Analysis Center, US Tank Tank, said in June 2021 The system can be potentially attacked “saturation”, designed to overcome the attacks of simultaneous missile attacks from multiple directions.
Smoke Billows attack on Missile in Israel, Tel Aviv, Israel, June 13, 2025
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