That area could also be void of any infrastructure or houses, thsu those rockets were given low-priority to be intercepted, thus they were able to get past the Iron Dome defenses; as they were not important enough.
Agreed. I'm not a missile defense expert, but I've read today's ballistic missiles are different and faster than those Iran shot back in April. If true, it could also explain why seemingly more of them made it through the iron dome.
The iron dome obviously isnt designed for ballistic smart missiles.
It designed for fire and forget missiles so it can calculate the path and shoot it down when needed.
This is totally different and the ballistic missiles are much faster.
That's a very small "explosion." That looks like missile debris, not an active warhead detonation.
What goes up, must come down. Everything that is intercepted will reign down debris. That's a hell out a lot less damage than would have occurred had the missile not be intercepted.
I'm confused. In physics "ballistic" means something that is projected but otherwise only affected by gravity (or something like that). What makes ballistic missiles different? (Honest question, and I know I could Google it but would prefer to ask my reddit friends)
In april iran shot also ballistic missiles but the missiles you are referring to might be either UAV or cruise missile which can be intercepted by the iron dome( the attack now was ONLY ballistic missiles)
The iron dome is not the whole defence system , the ballistic missiles are intercepted by Arrow 3 ,Arrow 2 and maybe david's sling but i think it is not , not sure
Those systems take out the ballistic missiles , in April and now look them out its intresting
Ballistic missiles follow a ballistic trajectory. Meaning they are shot high in the air and come back down under gravitational pull. The largest and fastest of these- ICBMs- are going roughly 4 miles per second on their downward trajectory. Nothing on earth can intercept something going that fast.
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u/Educational_Cattle96 Oct 01 '24
That area could also be void of any infrastructure or houses, thsu those rockets were given low-priority to be intercepted, thus they were able to get past the Iron Dome defenses; as they were not important enough.