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2024-10-29 Israel-Palestine-Jordan

Iron Beam bolstered: Israel expands laser defense with NIS two billion deal

[Jpost] The Defense Ministry announced on Monday that it signed an agreement with Rafael Advanced Defense Systems and Elbit Systems valued at around NIS two billion ($534 million) to significantly expand its acquisition of Iron Beam laser interception systems.

Rafael Advanced Defense Systems and Elbit Systems are Israeli defense technology companies.

The agreement was signed the day after the Defense Ministry’s Director-General Eyal Zamir signed an order to broaden the laser system’s production, the ministry said.

"Since the outbreak of the war, the Defense Ministry has signed hundreds of orders worth tens of billions of shekels" to strengthen the country’s independence by manufacturing products in Israel and "to build up the IDF’s capabilities," Zamir said. "Our primary goal is to reduce reliance on external sources and to bolster the Israeli industry," he further added.

A wise approach, given how many countries suddenly decided that virtue signalling to their Moslem colonists is more important than fulfilling arms contracts with Israel.

On its website, Rafael described the Iron Beam as a "100kW class, high energy laser weapon system" that is anticipated to be the first such system in its class.

Posted by Skidmark 2024-10-29 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11153 views ] Top

#1 Police arrest truck driver and another passenger who were driving a vehicle with a rocket launcher that was taken as loot from Lebanon.

Posted by Grom the Reflective 2024-10-29 04:19|| 2024-10-29 04:19|| Front Page Top

#2 The pricing of successful shootdowns shows a beam costs about $3.50 a successful shot, followed by CRAM at about $8250.00 then it jumps to the multi-hundred thousand then mid-10s of millions then tops out around 99 million per shot so this is a good choice

Posted by 3dc 2024-10-29 13:13|| 2024-10-29 13:13|| Front Page Top

#3 ^2
true the marginal cost of each shot is pretty low

however I think there will need to be a pretty dense network of beam stations along the border and/or protecting interior assets so the capital cost may end up pretty high, surely far above the 2B NIS

sometime in the future, a beam device mounted on a UAV could make the entire missile capacity of Iran uselss

Posted by Lord Garth 2024-10-29 14:07|| 2024-10-29 14:07|| Front Page Top

#4 In the late 70s an expensive beam weapon was proposed. No idea if it was ever tested.
It was a long tunnel with a mirror on one end and the other a 45 degree beam splitter. A nuclear bomb in the middle. The 45 degree aimed up with a tower with an aiming mirror. The idea was that it would make a laser beam that could be made when the bomb exploded and have about %0.1 of the bombs power in the beam...

Posted by 3dc 2024-10-29 20:14|| 2024-10-29 20:14|| Front Page Top

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