"... To mitigate some of Hezbollah’s missile threat, Israel is expected to deploy its Iron Dome anti-rocket missiles on its northern border with Lebanon alongside its Arrow long range ballistic missile defense system. In the meantime, Israel has rushed Iron Dome to the southern border with Gaza last month to meet Hamas’ rocket fire. Since then, it has scored its first successes, taking out two rockets yesterday and three today headed towards the southern city of Ashkelon. But Iron Dome’s protection comes at a price. The advanced radar-guided system uses missiles to knock out cheap, sometimes DIY rockets at short range — and costs at least $25,000 per missile fired and $50 million per battery. Facing an arsenal of thousands of Hezbollah rockets up north, Iron Dome could quickly rack up a hefty bill in the event of another war...."
Saturday, April 9, 2011
"..Facing an arsenal of thousands of Hezbollah rockets up north, Iron Dome could quickly rack up a hefty bill .."
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Plus it is questionable if it coulld knock out multiple missiles at the same time.
If Hezbollah fired even 10 missiles at the same time it could certainly knock out 1 or 2 but anything more than is unlikely.
Or maybe Hezbollah will just feel sorry for the Israeli's next time round and just fire missiles one at a time to give them a chance.
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