r/PublicFreakout • u/SpriteSilver6 • Oct 01 '24

🌎 World Events Missile impacts in Israel

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u/Rizmo26 Oct 01 '24

I thought Israel missile defense shot everything down?

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u/Adm_Piett Oct 01 '24

Depends. Iron dome tracks and estimates the site of impact. It won't intercept missiles that will be impacting in empty places like water or the desert.

This helps preserve missiles for things that will actually hitnlnreal targets and of course enough missiles could still overwhelm it.

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u/TowJamnEarl Oct 01 '24

Are you saying these ballistic missiles only hit the water or desert?

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u/Savage281 Oct 01 '24

He's saying it's likely these missiles hit low density areas like that. It's also possible these missiles overwhelmed the defense and got through. We'll know once casualty figures are released.

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u/doman991 Oct 01 '24

I don’t think he knows they used ballistic missiles. Seen reports of sonic and manoeuvre missiles as well. 80% of missiles reached its target according to twitter.

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u/BagOnuts Oct 01 '24

Considered only one person has been reported injured from this attack: yes, that is extremely likely.