r/PublicFreakout Oct 01 '24

🌎 World Events Missile impacts in Israel

22.0k Upvotes

3.0k comments sorted by

View all comments

3.1k

u/Rizmo26 Oct 01 '24

I thought Israel missile defense shot everything down?

1.2k

u/[deleted] Oct 01 '24

[deleted]

856

u/FooFatFighters Oct 01 '24

Sheer number of missiles also can overwhelm anti-missile missiles. The only way to defend against something like this is with energy weapons that don't have physical ammo to run out of.

10

u/Hatorate90 Oct 01 '24

They are testing with laserweapons. Biggest downside is that weather can influencer the performance.