On the eighth day of the conflict, Iran’s aerial offensives multiplied in Israel, and the famous Iron Dome, a mobile air defense system, let some missiles pass. An Israeli hospital was also hit on Thursday after a new save of Iranian missiles. Is Israeli protection less effective than before?
No defense system is 100% infallible
“The iron dome has never been a waterproof defense system. It is an oriented umbrella that has the merit of existing,” recalls Lieutenant Colonel Guillaume Ancel in BFMTV. No defense system is 100%infallible. The iron dome is just part of the Israeli anti -cripstick shield.
“As soon as you start using multiple weapons or the dome has been used a lot, it allows you to pass the missiles,” said the former officer. And that, the Iranians have understood it well: they use increasingly powerful and long range missiles, and more frequently, “saturate” the Israeli protection system.
The iron dome is composed of three layers: “Le Dôme”, which allows us to intercept the used shorts (approximately 70 km), “La Fronde de David”, to intercept medium range missiles (150 km) and “La Flèche”, to protect yourself from long missiles (250 km).
The antimisible shield also includes a radar, which allows to detect a shot of up to 70 km and a mobile analysis control unit, which calculates the point of impact and the control of missiles to intercept enemy attacks. To break the Hebrew state, Iran claims to have attracted hypersonic missiles to Israel. These hypersonic ballistic missiles of the intermediate range could reach between 16,000 and 18,000 kilometers per hour, according to Tehran.
A cost of $ 50,000 per intercepted missile
In addition to the dome, the Israelis receive, approximately ten minutes before the arrival of a missile, a message on their phone and a siren sounds approximately 90 seconds before a potential impact to have time to take refuge in the basement until new notice. “It’s thanks to the iron dome that have time to take refuge. But it is not inexhaustible,” Guillaume Ancel said. As a reminder, a single Iron Dome interceptor costs about $ 50,000, while each battery that attracts these interceptors costs about 50 million dollars.
How long can the Israel defense dome last? Especially because Iran does not intend to stop in his attacks. On Wednesday, the White House said Iran only needed approximately two weeks to get a nuclear weapon.
Source: BFM TV
