The primary discovery from Israel and Iran is all those explosions around Tel Aviv. Not the ones in Iran. The ones in Israel.
There is no defense against ballistic missiles. Understand plasma stealth.
Iron Dome and Patriots fail and that will apply to Golden Dome, too.
You can kill 80% of incoming and if they have nukes, it’s a 100% fail. This is the lesson for Golden Dome, and thank God only $25B is to be squandered on that.
Read about plasma stealth.
Ok, I read about plasma stealth.
It is not some invulnerable shield of invisibility.
Plasma can, in theory, be tuned to absorb selected microwave frequencies, but the tuning is extremely complex and results in harmonic emissions which can be easily detected with passive sensors. There are no reported successful experiments of this type.
Plasmas normally radiate in various frequencies too. With or without "stealth" tuning measures, an object surrounded by plasma can be detected, because it lights up the sky.
A laser shot can kill a ballistic missile in the terminal entry phase - if the weather is suitable. Antimissile systems of this type have been deployed and used with limited success. They do not charge fast enough, and they tend to break down after a single shot. Those problems may be solvable.
You can kill 80% of incoming and if they have nukes, it’s a 100% fail.
That is a pretty good point. And it has a corollary. You can kill 100% of incoming ballistic missiles if you hit them with a pre-emptive strike before they launch, so they are never incoming.