Israel saw over 16,000 rocket attacks last year from fundamentalist groups like Hamas, Hezbollah, Iran, and Yemen. The Iron Dome intercepted ~90% of them, resulting in thousands of lives saved.

Iron Beam is the newer incarnation of this technology that uses lasers to intercept incoming rockets and drones with precision and much lower cost. Wonderful technology.

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RegnisGnaw 15 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Lets send some over to Ukraine.

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myth_drannon 8 hours ago | parent [-]

And Putin gives a nuke to Iranians then it's game over since Iranians don't care about MAD doctrine. Anyways the risk of the tech falling into Russia's hands is too high. Ukrainians have the smarts to develop it themselves now that it is proven as a viable tech.

	▲	8note an hour ago \| parent \| next [-]
		iran has a religious rule against making nukes, to the same extent that it has religious decrees calling for an end to israel. iranians arent gonna nuke anyone without first toppling their religious government
	▲	Sabinus 7 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Why would Russia give nukes to Iran? The Russians themselves would be harmed by an open nuclear exchange. No, Putin's threats to Biden and Trump were more along the lines of, 'See the Houthis shooting shipping, imagine that capability spread to rebels and terrorists worldwide'

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elcritch 15 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Each Iron Dome interception cost many times more than the cost of the rockets. This will make it cheaper for other poorer nations to afford and operate.

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greekrich92 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

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megous 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Next up we'll be hearing about the virtues of V2 in the Nazi arsenal. Fun tech. Still does not erase the bad feelings from seeing kids shot at intentionally from drones, or submarine launched drones throwing incendiary munitions at a flotilla featuring my fellow countrymen from the same fucking country designing this laser. Fuck Israel.

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vorpalhex 3 hours ago | parent [-]

> seeing kids shot at intentionally from drones

Anytime somebody makes a claim about a drone operating a firearm, you should be extremely skeptical. There's a reason everyone uses explosive drones, not "drone with a machine gun". Small flying machines trying to fire off rounds doesn't work out.

> submarine launched drones throwing incendiary munitions at a flotilla

Per the Greek coastguard, someone left a lit joint by a fuel canister. Maybe the Greeks are in on the deep conspiracy.. or potheads are just forgetful.

	▲	serf 28 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		whenever you see someone making the claim that a gun won't work on an aircraft, I urge you to look at our entire aviation history of vehicles with guns strapped on. Planes, helicopters, jet-packs, 'manned platforms', whatever your fancy. we're not talking about glocks ductaped to DJIs here, and all of these mysterious engineer efforts that 'just doesn't work out' are hurdles that man has faced and conquered before. What I would suggest is that if anyone trying to give you a technical reason that ends in "It just doesn't work" they are probably unprepared to accurately brief you on the topic.