While you were traveled to Ashkelon the coastal city just south of Tel Aviv that nudges up against the Gaza Strip. What you were seeing here right now is the launcher. Launcher has 20 rockets on it. You can see the red light blazing which implies it’s outfitted and ready here one of the dozen or so Iron Dome batteries sits at the ready to intercept missiles and provide Israel with the type of shield from aerial attacks in the orange zone.
Commander Lieutenant Colonel Laron Cohen oversees its operation is this as close as we get or do we get as close as we got it took just three years and about 200 million dollars to develop this defense system. It depends on a radar that immediately recognizes when a rocket has been terminated. Calculations rapidly attempt to figure out what kind of shot is noticeable all around and whether it’s going for a populated or strategic area. If so I until launches a missile of its own it said that Iron Dome has taken down more than 1,000 missiles since it turned on in 2011 with a 90% success rate.
Some people question the accuracy of these figures what’s clear though is that the algorithms capable of directing projectiles while performing a money-saving advantage investigation on human existence are among the most progressive on the planet. This organization of launchers is highly mobile and constantly on the move this site like many is temporary everything. You see here can be moved out in a matter of hours and we move around a lot to make sure nobody knows what we are constantly except. If you live here it’s hard to envision exactly how much this innovation has transformed the lives of ordinary Israelis.
I can tell you from my own personal experience sitting in my own house and seeing rockets fired towards my house and operating this is an incredible system and succeeding. But they are in the dome when you see the house that you’re protecting and your family and your friends and your soldiers. It’s a sense of a great sense of pride for many Palestinians. Iron Dome methods something different it’s simply the most apparent piece of a sweeping Israeli security apparatus that includes drone checkpoints and espionage technology. Those tools have been put to immediate use in the West Bank of Gaza and all through Israel fear-based oppressor bombings have declined rockets have met their match but lower-tech forms of protest like stabbings are now on the rise.