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Iron Dome _shorts _documentary _military _tactical _irondome _israel _gaza _fypシ _fyp _war _history(360P)
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00:00The Iron Dome is an Israeli mobile all-weather air defense system.
00:05It is designed to intercept and destroy short-range rockets and 155mm artillery shells fired upon
00:11Israel from 4 to 70km away.
00:14On April 7th of 2011, the Iron Dome destroyed the first enemy rocket launched from Gaza.
00:20During Operation Pillar of Defense, around 1,000 missiles and rockets were fired by Hamas
00:25upon Israel.
00:27Two-thirds of the projectiles were deemed non-threatening, the remaining were destroyed
00:31at a 90% success rate, seeing 3 Israeli casualties in all.
00:36Iron Dome employs Tamir interceptor missiles, costing roughly 20 to 50 thousand each.
00:41In comparison, the Qasem rockets of Hamas cost roughly 800 dollars to make.
00:46Thus, the Iron Dome could potentially be overwhelmed by swarms of missiles fired simultaneously
00:52or through a costly war of attrition.
00:54To combat this, the Iron Dome is researching an Iron Beam energy weapon to complement it.