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| Israel-Palestine-Jordan | |
| IDF Plans Laser Interceptor Iron Beam For Short-Range Rockets | |
| 2014-01-20 | |
[Ynet] System designed to deal with threats that fly on too small a trajectory to be engaged efficiently by Iron Dome
The system is designed to deal with threats that fly on too small a trajectory to be engaged efficiently by Iron Dome, the Israeli interceptor credited with an 80% success rate against rockets fired by Paleostinian terrorists. Both shields are manufactured by state-owned Rafael Advanced Defense Systems Ltd. While Iron Dome launches radar-guided interceptor rockets, Iron Beam's laser will super-heat the warheads of shells with ranges of up to 7 km. Rafael said Iron Beam would be formally unveiled at next month's Singapore Air Show. The IDF declined to discuss deployment plans. Iron Dome is complemented by Arrow II, an Israeli interceptor designed to shoot down ballistic missiles at atmospheric heights. Israel plans to integrate them with the more powerful rocket interceptors Arrow III and David's Sling, both of which are still in their testing phases. The United States has extensively underwritten the projects, seeing them as a means of reassuring its Middle East ally as instability rocks the region. The industry official, who asked not to be named, said Iron Beam would form the "fifth layer" of integrated missile defense. | |
| Posted by:trailing wife |
| #6 WTF were they thinking? Specifically, what was the 'loader' in the photo thinking? Jeez.......... |
| Posted by: Mullah Richard 2014-01-20 22:09 |
| #5 Too bad, JFM, that their's not chance for you excellent recommendation. |
| Posted by: AlanC 2014-01-20 13:45 |
| #4 Iron Beam. I-beam. Eye Beam. As I type, classrooms of Pal kids may already be learning geometry by calculating siting and "small trajectory" required to produce plausible atrocity footage. Later, at recess: Pin the tail on the donkey. Blind man's bluff. Blindfolded fire-tire jumping. Possible kid-friendly rename: Pointer of Fire. |
| Posted by: Zenobia Floger6220 2014-01-20 12:32 |
| #3 I recommend that for every rocket fored Israel sizes one mile of Hamas territory. Two miles if three are casualties. Twenty miles if someone is killed. And deports the population to Saudi Arabia since their rich Arab brothers love them so much. |
| Posted by: JFM 2014-01-20 08:54 |
| #2 Ah yes, gawds own spigot boom. Comes with its own set of entrenching tools, that the boomers might survive the boom. WTF were they thinking? |
| Posted by: Shipman 2014-01-20 08:42 |
| #1 I recommend the remotely fired Davy Crocket as a fallback. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2014-01-20 08:26 |