Israel's Iron Dome passes test for short range missile defense

[In-A-Gadda-Levitre]

interesting reading about Israel's anti-missile defense system called Iron Dome

 

The Iron Dome short-range missile defense system passed a series of tests over the last few days with flying colors, successfully shooting down Qassam rockets, Grad rockets and mortar shells one after the other.

 

It even succeeded in determining which missiles to shoot down - those whose trajectory made them likely to land in a populated area - and which to ignore.

 

Iron Dome is far from full deployment and they don't know how they'll pay for it, but this is a fairly significant accomplishment. I've never heard of a US defense program that could actually do something like this and actually work the way it was supposed to. Of course, we're not talking about ICBMs or cruise missiles here, but...