Israeli Inventions – The Iron Dome

The Iron Dome is a defence system that was built by the Israeli government in 2011. The Iron Dome detects rockets or missiles, and sends another rocket to intercept the rocket or missile. If an enemy attacks with a rocket strike, and it is going to hit an important place like the Western Wall it will send the rockets to deflect. If the dome detects that the rocket is going into the water or not to an important spot, it won’t send a rocket to intercept.

The Iron Dome isn’t actually a dome. The Iron Dome is a detecting protection system. It can hit most projectiles with a missing rate of 10%. The USA contributed 1.6 billion US dollars. The Iron Dome was first deployed on March 27th 2011, near Beer Sheva. The first time the Iron Dome intercepted a rocket was on April 7th 2011, in Gaza. In 2012, the Iron Dome was calculated to have intercepted about 400 missiles in one year. By now the Iron Dome has intercepted about 9,500 missiles.

The Iron Dome activates by detecting a nearby missile then shooting a smaller missile that explodes the enemy missile. The tracking missile detector was built by Elta, an Israeli defence company. The control centre is made by Mprest systems, an Israeli software company, like Microsoft. The company who made and supplied the missiles was Electro-Optic Sensors. 

The Iron Dome has mostly pros, but it also has some cons. The Iron Dome intercepts 90 percent of the missiles and rockets that are sent to Israel. As a result of the Iron Dome’s success, the people of Israel feel safe and protected, and it also saves peoples lives. It protects important buildings, and statues from being destroyed or damaged. Although the Iron Dome intercepts 90 percent of rockets, 10 percent of the rockets don’t get intercepted. Those rockets can be deadly to people’s lives, and to special monuments or buildings.

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