The United States has subsidized the cost of developing the system not simply to help an ally with a chronic need for such defenses, but in hopes that derivative systems may some day help defend US forces from missile attacks as well. Iron Dome answered the call.īoasting an 85 to 90 percent success rate in some episodes, the system-which Israel continues to refine-has been called a “game changer.” The country needed a reliable defense for military, economic, and psychological reasons. Launched by various terror groups from the land surrounding Israel and its occupied areas, indiscriminate attacks have played havoc with daily life in Israel for decades.
The US and Israel have jointly spent billions of dollars developing Iron Dome, a defense system against surface-to-surface weapons-mortars, rockets, and missiles-targeting Israel.
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