‘Iron Dome success
rate as low as zero’
As American President Barack
Obama hailed the ‘resounding
success’ of Israel’s US-financed
Iron Dome antimissile system on
the first of his tour there, missile
experts have newly unveiled that
Iron Dome’s success rate during
the regime’s November war on
Gaza was as low as zero.
While Obama used his Wednesday’s
tour of an Iron Dome installation,
“celebrating a technological wonder
built with the help of American
dollars” and seeking to showcase
US support of the Zionist regime,
there was no mention about the
“intensifying debate” on whether
the promotion of the system’s
success rate was “more illusory
than real,” says a The New York
Times article on Thursday.
"Contrary to Israeli claims that
Iron Dome’s success rate in
destroying incoming Palestinian
rockets during the regime’s
massive military strikes against the
blockaded Gaza strip was 90
percent, studies by weapons
experts in the US and Israel suggest
that the anti-missile system
“destroyed no more than 40
percent” of the rockets “and
perhaps far fewer,” the report
emphasizes."
Many rockets, they argue, were
“merely crippled or deflected” but
not destroyed as claimed, allowing
intact or dying rockets to fall on
populated areas.
Following the wildly exaggerated
claims by the Israeli regime about
Iron Dome’s success rate, the US
Congress also described the system
as “very effective,” pledging an
additional USD680 million for
deployments through 2015.
According to the report, Richard
Lloyd, a weapons expert who has
written a critique of Iron Dome for
engineers and weapons designers,
and Theodore Postol, a physicist at
Massachusetts Institute of
Technology (MIT) who helped
reveal major Patriot antimissile
failures in 1991, analyzed new
videos on the performance of the
Israeli anti-missile system and
found that Iron Dome “repeatedly
failed to hit its targets head-on.”
" “It’s very hard to see how it
could be more than 5 or 10
percent,” the report quotes Dr.
Postol as saying."
Moreover, the daily adds,
Mordechai Shefer, an Israeli rocket
scientist formerly with Rafael, Iron
Dome’s maker, studied about two
dozen videos and, in a study
published last month, “concluded
that the kill rate was zero.”
"Meanwhile, the paper underlines
that Iron Dome’s performance is
the key to a potential Israeli
decision whether to take military
action against the Islamic Republic
as it has repeatedly threatened,
hinging on its estimate of possible
retaliatory costs, “including damage
inflicted by rockets fired from
southern Lebanon and the Gaza
Strip,” not to mention Iran’s own
long-range ballistic missiles."
Amid the growing anxiety over any
Iranian retaliatory strikes on Israel
in case of an American or an Israeli
attack against the country, as often
threatened by officials of both
allies as a ploy aimed at pressuring
Tehran into abandoning its right to
use peaceful nuclear technology,
“the Israeli public saw Iron dome’s
(reported) early successes” against
rocket fire from Gaza “as proof”
that it can tolerate retaliatory
strikes, the report adds, citing
Israeli antimissile program’s
founder, Uzi Rubin.
Following the Gaza cease-fire last
year, the report notes, Lloyd began
scrutinizing “hundreds of online
videos of Iron Dome in action,”
looking for “unambiguous signs of
success: pairs of fireballs (at night)
or smoke clouds (during the day)
that formed as speeding fragments
blew up a warhead.”
However, “he found very few,” the
daily adds, citing Lloyd.
Lloyds method of video analysis
won scientific backing during the
1991 US-led Persian Gulf war
against Iraq, as the American
military boasted that its Patriot
interceptors, built to protect Israel
against potential missile attacks by
Iraqi dictator at the time Saddam
Hussein, had succeeded 96 percent
of the time.
MIT scientist, however, “analyzed
broadcast videos and found only
misses,” according to the Time’s
report.
In Israel, meanwhile, Lloyd won
support from Reuven Pedatzur, a
military analyst and former fighter
pilot “long skeptical of his
country’s antimissile claims,” who
found an Israeli police report
saying that 109 rockets launched
from Gaza - roughly twice the
military’s figure - hit urban areas.
Pedatzur further discovered
“evidence of wide destruction”
inflicted by rockets fired by
Palestinian Hamas militants.
A Finance Ministry report
registered 3,165 claims of property
damage, “including to cars and
buildings in cities like Ashdod and
Beersheba, both protected by Iron
Dome battalions.”

Whoever wrote this article is as envious as the Devil himself.

Just google Iron Dome and Gaza war.

The success rate is not less than 85% even Aljazeera media network attested to this when some missiles were intercepted beside their Patrol Van during one of their live broadcasts while covering the last Pillar of Defence War .

^^^ True!

I think an Iranian wrote this piece.

Rubbish inspired by envy. As long as the rocket was intercepted, and failed to reach its target, who cares if the interception was headon? Do antiaircraft missiles intercept enemy aircrafts headon?
Anyways the result speaks for itself.

I don't believe this because this peaple does not joke with their own national security and they will never place their faith in what is not effective. Unlike one country i know that can play game with something like that because of the corruption, tribes or sentiments.

This article may embolden many of isreali neighbors to start another offensive if they believe the previous devastating effect of previous rocket attacks was played down.

lawalluck: ‘Iron Dome success
rate as low as zero’
As American President Barack
Obama hailed the ‘resounding
success’ of Israel’s US-financed
Iron Dome antimissile system on
the first of his tour there, missile
experts have newly unveiled that
Iron Dome’s success rate during
the regime’s November war on
Gaza was as low as zero.
While Obama used his Wednesday’s
tour of an Iron Dome installation,
“celebrating a technological wonder
built with the help of American
dollars” and seeking to showcase
US support of the Zionist regime,
there was no mention about the
“intensifying debate” on whether
the promotion of the system’s
success rate was “more illusory
than real,” says a The New York
Times article on Thursday.
"Contrary to Israeli claims that
Iron Dome’s success rate in
destroying incoming Palestinian
rockets during the regime’s
massive military strikes against the
blockaded Gaza strip was 90
percent, studies by weapons
experts in the US and Israel suggest
that the anti-missile system
“destroyed no more than 40
percent” of the rockets “and
perhaps far fewer,” the report
emphasizes."
Many rockets, they argue, were
“merely crippled or deflected” but
not destroyed as claimed, allowing
intact or dying rockets to fall on
populated areas.
Following the wildly exaggerated
claims by the Israeli regime about
Iron Dome’s success rate, the US
Congress also described the system
as “very effective,” pledging an
additional USD680 million for
deployments through 2015.
According to the report, Richard
Lloyd, a weapons expert who has
written a critique of Iron Dome for
engineers and weapons designers,
and Theodore Postol, a physicist at
Massachusetts Institute of
Technology (MIT) who helped
reveal major Patriot antimissile
failures in 1991, analyzed new
videos on the performance of the
Israeli anti-missile system and
found that Iron Dome “repeatedly
failed to hit its targets head-on.”
" “It’s very hard to see how it
could be more than 5 or 10
percent,” the report quotes Dr.
Postol as saying."
Moreover, the daily adds,
Mordechai Shefer, an Israeli rocket
scientist formerly with Rafael, Iron
Dome’s maker, studied about two
dozen videos and, in a study
published last month, “concluded
that the kill rate was zero.”
"Meanwhile, the paper underlines
that Iron Dome’s performance is
the key to a potential Israeli
decision whether to take military
action against the Islamic Republic
as it has repeatedly threatened,
hinging on its estimate of possible
retaliatory costs, “including damage
inflicted by rockets fired from
southern Lebanon and the Gaza
Strip,” not to mention Iran’s own
long-range ballistic missiles."
Amid the growing anxiety over any
Iranian retaliatory strikes on Israel
in case of an American or an Israeli
attack against the country, as often
threatened by officials of both
allies as a ploy aimed at pressuring
Tehran into abandoning its right to
use peaceful nuclear technology,
“the Israeli public saw Iron dome’s
(reported) early successes” against
rocket fire from Gaza “as proof”
that it can tolerate retaliatory
strikes, the report adds, citing
Israeli antimissile program’s
founder, Uzi Rubin.
Following the Gaza cease-fire last
year, the report notes, Lloyd began
scrutinizing “hundreds of online
videos of Iron Dome in action,”
looking for “unambiguous signs of
success: pairs of fireballs (at night)
or smoke clouds (during the day)
that formed as speeding fragments
blew up a warhead.”
However, “he found very few,” the
daily adds, citing Lloyd.
Lloyds method of video analysis
won scientific backing during the
1991 US-led Persian Gulf war
against Iraq, as the American
military boasted that its Patriot
interceptors, built to protect Israel
against potential missile attacks by
Iraqi dictator at the time Saddam
Hussein, had succeeded 96 percent
of the time.
MIT scientist, however, “analyzed
broadcast videos and found only
misses,” according to the Time’s
report.
In Israel, meanwhile, Lloyd won
support from Reuven Pedatzur, a
military analyst and former fighter
pilot “long skeptical of his
country’s antimissile claims,” who
found an Israeli police report
saying that 109 rockets launched
from Gaza - roughly twice the
military’s figure - hit urban areas.
Pedatzur further discovered
“evidence of wide destruction”
inflicted by rockets fired by
Palestinian Hamas militants.
A Finance Ministry report
registered 3,165 claims of property
damage, “including to cars and
buildings in cities like Ashdod and
Beersheba, both protected by Iron
Dome battalions.”

oga u are a fool.iron dome remains the only tested missile defense system that has been test in combat.
the success rate was more than 85percent. even India wants to buy an iron dome now.
posters what will u benefit from spreading lies.

The poster obviously copied,this hate article from press tv(the iraning tv station.That is anti west.And anti isreal)website.....Foolish propagandist...

The Iron dome is the first and only missile defense system for now that is used in actual combat and has a high success rate.

Even the americans were suprised at the success rate. Countries like South Korea, Japan are keen to buy the defence system from Israel to keep the North Koreans in check.

So any article written against the success is full of lies. Maybe the writer wants the Iron Dome to fly people to the moon, talk with them as a human would.