The system developed by Rafael is designed to protect against missiles fired at ranges of 4-70 kilometers. Each battery includes a radar system made by Elta from the Air Industry Group, a fire control system, and three launchers, each of which is equipped with 20 Tamir model interceptors.
Today I was a hearing witness to the capability of the Iron Dome system, when about two hours after it was placed in Gush Dan, it managed to intercept a rocket that made its way to Tel Aviv. According to reports on Channel 2, two missiles made their way to Tel Aviv, one fell in an open area in the Bat Yam area, while the other was intercepted by the Iron Dome system, which fired two interceptor missiles at it. The first missed its target while the second succeeded in intercepting, this rocket failed to reach Tel Aviv.
The Aerospace Industry presented last week at the HLS (Homeland Security) conference held at the Tel Aviv Fair Center on November 11-13 in Tel Aviv, the MMR (Multi Mission Radar) radar, a sophisticated and unique radar, which is an important component and inseparable from the "Iron Dome" defense system.
The system developed by Rafael is designed to protect against missiles fired at ranges of 4-70 kilometers. Each battery includes a radar system made by Elta from the Air Industry Group, a fire control system, and three launchers, each of which is equipped with 20 Tamir model interceptors.
Iron Dome is actually a dual system designed to intercept artillery missiles and mortar shells as well as airplanes but at a short range. The decision to open them was made in 2007 after the Second Lebanon War.
The information about ballistic objects fired at the battery is transmitted to the battery management and the control truck, where the information is evaluated and a response is given to intercept the missile or ignore it. The threat data is transmitted to the interceptor which is launched into a trajectory that crosses the path of the approaching missile and detonates it in a way that causes minimal damage.
Recently, the team of radar developers from Alta Systems, a division and subsidiary of the Israel Defense Forces, received the Israel Security Award for their contribution to the security of Israeli citizens.
At the beginning of the year, before the cloud pillar operation, Jane's magazine published that the Iron Dome system reached a 70% success rate in 2011, according to Air Force data.
The three batteries placed during 2011 in the Gaza Strip participated in three rounds of battles between Israel and Palestinian terrorists and managed to intercept 33 of the 47 rockets that were launched into areas protected by the system.
As a result of these lessons, the radar system was improved after several mistakes, and as mentioned, we have seen the results of these repairs in recent days.
Although the price of one Iron Dome missile costs about 40 dollars compared to the hundreds of dollars that a Qassam type missile costs, the damage avoided is greater than this cost, and it is a fact - if the Iron Dome system detects that the enemy missile is making its way into an open area, it refrains from launching an interception missile.
If until the current round, the Iron Dome system was tested under less massive conditions, then in the last three days about a thousand missiles were launched and 267 of them were intercepted by Iron Dome (as of 17/11 at 23:00).
And more on the same subject: "Iron Dome has all the components of a robotic system. A lot of electronics, a lot of mechanical systems, complex software that implements artificial intelligence, sophisticated control, and the other features that characterize a sophisticated robotic system, the same things we teach here in the robotics major at the Faculty of Engineering at Bar-Ilan University." Says Dr Eli Kohlberg, Head of the Robotics Department at the Faculty of Engineering at Bar-Ilan University .
see also: guarding the sky - Coverage of a conference of the IAT association - the Israeli anti-missile association that specifically promoted the laser solution
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Thank you Menachem, of course I translated from an English source that was more available to me.
Just a small correction: the name of the intercepted missile is Tamir BT and not BT. The name is actually the initials of his name: Til Myrt
And the name is what "T" is from Til and "Mir" is from Mirt.
comfort.
Well done to all associated with this ingenious development.
Oz, you probably didn't understand, 33 out of 47 is before the improvement. Today, as Iran quotes, the success rate was 96%. What's more, in the case of the missile that made its way to Tel Aviv, they didn't settle for one (perhaps because it was a Phager missile) and sent two interceptors. The first missed and the second succeeded.
By the way, regarding the laser, it only had an accuracy percentage of 60% and it was not at all effective in cloudy conditions... add to that that the Americans insisted that only they operate the batteries... only their teams... so you couldn't exactly trust them.
I would be quite opposed to this system, but what to do with success, they don't argue and Rafael engineers did something in the nature of science fiction...really well done...just to think that 200 intercepted missiles would have been really offensive.
33 out of 47 It's nice but it's not enough to protect us from Iran and Hezbollah
If the state wants protection, the developers must reduce the percentage of contamination and lower the cost
Per Missile and the cost of producing the system in order to develop many missiles and a large number of systems, you should reach full deployment.
At least you can now see the system in real time
Just a few things for accuracy..before the last count, they reported today a miss rate of 4% !! Of all the missiles that the dome was supposed to intercept...and this is also without considering that the real cover of each dome we don't know on the ground because they won't really tell us where there are holes in the cover.
Also, the fifth one has been upgraded to a range of 2 as well as to the height...which makes it effective also against the Fajrs, which are actually missiles with a warhead of 90 kilos each...it is not pleasant if one of them takes a direct hit since it has a warhead about 3 times larger More than the well-known and "loved" Lagrad
Partly because the laser can only shoot one at a time, and it takes a few seconds of aiming until the missile explodes.
Against a barrage it will not be enough. The Iron Dome, on the other hand, already worked against a barrage of 9 missiles at the same time in Be'er Sheva a few days ago, and of course it is still in the development of more advanced generations that are capable of more.
The goal, I assume, will be for all the interception systems to be part of one system that will puzzle over targets and decide which interceptor to use (iron dome, magic wand and the two arrows)
Why couldn't the State of Israel purchase a laser interceptor, it's much cheaper haha