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In short: air defense is not a single dome that swats everything from the sky. It is a stack of separate layers, each tuned to a different range and threat, passing targets down the chain until one of them gets a clean shot. Ask most people how a country stops incoming rockets and drones, and they picture one invisible bubble that catches anything crossing the border. That mental image is wrong. Real air defense is built as a relay. A long-range radar spots a threat hundreds of kilometers out, a command system decides which weapon owns that track, and the…

In short: Iron Dome gets attacked as a money pit because each Tamir interceptor costs tens of thousands of dollars while the rockets it stops cost a few hundred. That math misses the point. The system only fires at rockets heading for people or property, so the real comparison is one interceptor against one destroyed building. You have heard the line. A homemade rocket costs a few hundred dollars, an Iron Dome interceptor costs tens of thousands, so Israel is spending itself into a corner. It sounds obvious. It is also comparing the wrong two numbers. קראו גם: מערכת בחירות:…