The Iranian Revolutionary Guard confirmed this Tuesday the launch of missiles against Israel in response to the assassinations of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh, Hezbollah chief Hasan Nasrallah, and an Iranian general. “With the firing of dozens of ballistic missiles, the targets in the heart of the occupied territories have been hit,” indicated the elite military body.
Live images of the Tel Aviv sky have shown how The famous ‘Iron Dome’ has worked at full capacity and has stopped most projectiles sent by the Ayatollah regime.
He Kipat Barzel (Hebrew name of the device) is a surface-to-air missile (SAM) system designed to intercept and destroy short-range rockets, aircraft and other missiles launched from a distance of 4 to 70 kilometers. Developed by the company Rafael Advanced Defense Systems, it was created as a defensive response to the threat to the Israeli population from falling rockets from the northern and southern borders.
The Iron Dome (also known by its English name, Iron Dome) was declared operational and deployed on March 27, 2011 near Beersheba and a few days later it intercepted its first missile, sent by Palestinian terrorists from Gaza. The Iron Dome is also capable of intercepting aircraft at a maximum altitude of 10,000 meters, which is why it is considered one of the best missile shields.
At the moment, Israel has ten batteries in the system. Each of them has three or four rocket launchers with 20 missiles each.which means that there are between 800 and 600 missiles within the system.
Its operation is very simple. When the Iron Dome’s radar detects a projectile heading toward Israeli territory, transmits the information to the BMC (Battle Management Center) in a matter of seconds. In this military operations center, those responsible for the defense system analyze the available data and immediately activate the sending of a missile to end the threat. The time between the system detecting a potential threat and eliminating the missile is approximately 15 seconds. The Iron Dome operates 24 hours a day, with all-weather capability.
“The multi-mission system Effectively counters rockets, mortars and artillery shellsas well as airplanes, helicopters and unmanned aerial vehicles at very short distances,” says the Rafael company on its website. This prodigy of defense engineering has evolved in recent years and now has a mobile version, the I- Dome, and another naval one, the C-Dome.
