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r/PublicFreakout • u/SpriteSilver6 • Oct 01 '24
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That's how the Iron Dome system works. The radar tracks the trajectory of the incoming missiles and launches interceptors based on their flight path.
https://www.npr.org/2024/06/27/g-s1-6384/israel-iron-dome-hezbollah-hamas-missile-defense-limits#:~:text=Iron%20Dome%20uses%20its%20radar,Iron%20Dome%20will%20launch%20interceptors.
744 u/twotokers Oct 01 '24 edited Oct 01 '24 And it costs American taxpayers about $150k a missile edit: Israel can afford to buy these missiles from us. No reason we need to be footing the bill for their defense. 643 u/rayhaque Oct 01 '24 If only we had some money for healthcare and education. 63 u/todellagi Oct 01 '24 Blasphemous Haven't you thought about the ruling class, who are banking on idiots without critical thinking skills supporting them and the rest being enslaved to job health insurance, so they sit still and don't kick up a fuss? 28 u/rayhaque Oct 01 '24 Sorry, sir. I guess I wasn't thinking at all. * goes back to breaking big rocks into smaller ones *
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And it costs American taxpayers about $150k a missile
edit: Israel can afford to buy these missiles from us. No reason we need to be footing the bill for their defense.
643 u/rayhaque Oct 01 '24 If only we had some money for healthcare and education. 63 u/todellagi Oct 01 '24 Blasphemous Haven't you thought about the ruling class, who are banking on idiots without critical thinking skills supporting them and the rest being enslaved to job health insurance, so they sit still and don't kick up a fuss? 28 u/rayhaque Oct 01 '24 Sorry, sir. I guess I wasn't thinking at all. * goes back to breaking big rocks into smaller ones *
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If only we had some money for healthcare and education.
63 u/todellagi Oct 01 '24 Blasphemous Haven't you thought about the ruling class, who are banking on idiots without critical thinking skills supporting them and the rest being enslaved to job health insurance, so they sit still and don't kick up a fuss? 28 u/rayhaque Oct 01 '24 Sorry, sir. I guess I wasn't thinking at all. * goes back to breaking big rocks into smaller ones *
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Blasphemous
Haven't you thought about the ruling class, who are banking on idiots without critical thinking skills supporting them and the rest being enslaved to job health insurance, so they sit still and don't kick up a fuss?
28 u/rayhaque Oct 01 '24 Sorry, sir. I guess I wasn't thinking at all. * goes back to breaking big rocks into smaller ones *
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Sorry, sir. I guess I wasn't thinking at all.
* goes back to breaking big rocks into smaller ones *
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u/Soliden Oct 01 '24
That's how the Iron Dome system works. The radar tracks the trajectory of the incoming missiles and launches interceptors based on their flight path.
https://www.npr.org/2024/06/27/g-s1-6384/israel-iron-dome-hezbollah-hamas-missile-defense-limits#:~:text=Iron%20Dome%20uses%20its%20radar,Iron%20Dome%20will%20launch%20interceptors.