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2 posted on 04/30/2024 4:08:28 PM PDT by PeterPrinciple (Thinking Caps are no longer being issued but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere.)

To: PeterPrinciple

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_Dome

Iron Dome (Hebrew: כִּפַּת בַּרְזֶל, romanized: Kippat Barzel) is an Israeli mobile all-weather air defense system,[8] developed by Rafael Advanced Defense Systems and Israel Aerospace Industries.[7] The system is designed to intercept and destroy short-range rockets and artillery shells fired from distances of 4 to 70 kilometres (2–43 mi) away and whose trajectory would take them to an Israeli populated area.[9][10] From 2011 to 2021, the United States contributed a total of US$1.6 billion to the Iron Dome defense system,[11] with another US$1 billion approved by the US Congress in 2022.[12][needs update]

Iron Dome was declared operational and initially deployed on 27 March 2011 near Beersheba.[13] On 7 April 2011, the system successfully intercepted a rocket launched from Gaza for the first time.[14] On 10 March 2012, The Jerusalem Post reported that the system shot down 90% of rockets launched from Gaza that would have landed in populated areas.[10] In late 2012, Israel said that it hoped to increase the range of Iron Dome’s interceptions, from a maximum of 70 to 250 kilometres (43–155 mi) and make it more versatile so that it could intercept rockets coming from two directions simultaneously.[15]

modified for their particular needs?

5 posted on 04/30/2024 4:11:14 PM PDT by PeterPrinciple (Thinking Caps are no longer being issued but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere.)

To: PeterPrinciple; All

While the Army has yet to fund another missile production increase, Lockheed decided in the latter part of 2022 that it would continue to invest internally to be able to build 650 a year. “Lockheed could see the demand out there,” Davidson said, adding that the company plans to hit that number in 2027.

Production is "ramping up" alright.

650 missiles a year. That's almost two per day !

7 posted on 04/30/2024 4:16:57 PM PDT by Reverend Wright ( Everything touched by progressives, dies !)

To: PeterPrinciple

“production ramping up?”

Not happening, at least in any significant quantity - too reliant on Chinese piece-parts and China isn’t in much mood to help us ramp up our military.

Probably should have thought about that before starting wars around the world...

26 posted on 04/30/2024 4:40:21 PM PDT by BobL (A society built on MERIT cannot survive on DEI (ref. South Africa, and now USA))

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