This is what Natan Barak, CEO of the mPrest company that develops the "brain" (command and control software system) of the "Iron Dome" system said at the tenth meeting of the Israeli chip club of the CHIPORTAL website and TAPEOUT magazine that took place this week in Tel Aviv
"After the Second Lebanon War, we realized that it is impossible to agree to a threat without having a response to it, and within a year we were already in the first test of an Iron Dome." This is what Natan Barak, CEO of the mPrest company that develops the "brain" (software system for command and control) of the "Iron Dome" system said at the tenth meeting of the Israeli chip club of the CHIPORTAL website and TAPEOUT magazine that took place this week in Tel Aviv. The mPrest company develops control systems for civil and military organizations and was awarded Rafael's investment.
"After Shlomo Gerdman accompanied me at the beginning of my journey, I couldn't say no to him and I came to the chip club." Barak said at the beginning of his lecture. Gerdman, the owner of this site, was Barak's mentor upon his release from the army, on behalf of the Electronics Industries Association. "In the army I served in the Navy computer center which later became an ICT center. I worked with the industry even when I was there but there is a difference between looking at the industry from the side of the army and being in the industry and selling."
"Amperest company, raised 4 million dollars from Pitango and other funds, was supposed to deal with wireless internet for cellular. When I came to them after two years, they ran out of money. We opened a new company, Amperest System, and went in a new direction, we realized that the most important thing is international marketing, but to reach market leadership in systems Control and control will require a long time, so we gave up control of the company and introduced Rafael as a central player with 50% of the shares. This is a platform that will allow us to be leaders in Israel and then also in the world. Our customers are the defense industry - Rafael, Elta, Cement, but also Laitorn, an electric company, and companies abroad such as the Russian Ras Hydra."
"We decided that everything that was opened would be generic. After we installed a control and monitoring system for locating them in Israel, we made a commitment that they would be able to install it in other places without a programmer. This is despite the fact that cars are stolen in Israel, but drivers are kidnapped in Brazil."
"We developed a generic infrastructure for command and control systems that sold the infrastructures to foreign companies. Elta developed 10 different systems on top of our infrastructures. MPREST is a company with a vision and an excellent system."
Later, Barak explained how the company evolved into the parent company's most important project - the Iron Dome. "In the Second Lebanon War we were shot at and without being prepared we stepped forward, we had to do something and within a year we had already carried out the first experiment. We made all the possible mistakes. The last confrontation - Operation Pillar of Cloud made it clear to us that the Iron Dome has another advantage beyond the protection of civilians - it allows For the decision makers to make the right decisions and prepare properly."
"Less than a second from the moment we discovered the threat, which is indeed a threat, that we did not accidentally shoot at helicopters that could be identified by the system as a ballistic missile due to the nature of their movement. This is a very complex event at short ranges with very low angles of descent. The enemy has also become sophisticated. In the past, the terrorists who fired missiles were They are hiding in the fields. Today, it is very difficult to find them. We closed the gap of many years when they shot at us and we had no answer - We will know how to deal with missiles in the short term. We are fighting everything that comes from Iran, although there is self-production in Gaza. The success rates are already very high, but we will continue to improve them."
Barak later described the operation of the system: "As soon as the threat is detected, we react in less than a second. Our goal is to bring the Tamir interceptor safely to home on the target. For each threat we generate 820 solutions and choose the best, the challenges are many. Above all, we must be careful not to damage the planes Therefore, in the case of such a concern, we give up interception The Arrow. We were responsible for the Shob and the media. We are connected to all possible sensors of the Air Force. After building the picture we assess the threats. If there are not enough interceptors, we will not intercept any target or give up the possibility of launching two interceptor missiles, as by the way we did with the battery placed in Tel Aviv, and this because it was a battery that was taken out of testing and included insufficiently tested software versions. "
"The system includes a unique computing system of its kind in Israel, with all possible encryptions and ACTIVE DIRECTORIES. Today we bring a control van to each battery, and in the future, the intention is to go for a national control center as we are doing with one of the first systems we will launch."
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To your great dismay, they started thinking about this back in 1978 at Ben Gurion University in collaboration with then Major General Ariel Sharon. Please note that work on the Iron Dome radar began at Altha Company in 1980.
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By this logic, why wouldn't the United States support Assad against the rebels? Or in the Arabs against Israel? There is no doubt that they are a much greater economic and political power than Israel, aren't they? What advantage did it have to support the defeated England in 1940? Why not in Germany?
The wrong point in the previous response was that behavior considered "moral" brings great power. In our case - the support of the strongest power in the world. If we start using terror like our enemy and turn Gaza into a Teddy Stadium after every Qassam as my father suggested, very quickly the F15s will stop arriving, as happened in the First Lebanon War when we made the bombing of Beirut too tight.
We and Gaza are not Russia and Tzatsenia, above us are 127 countries, above them - a blue sky. In order to survive, we must understand our limited real power, and not repeat the mistake of Milosevic who allowed himself too much against the weak Albanians, and ended up dying in prison.
We have already gone through destruction and exile because Kochba's rift did not correctly calculate the balance of power vis-a-vis Rome. So don't let the piss go to our heads too much, according to Saddam Hussein.
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The Kosovo war was a war of the United States against Russia that used Serbia as Russia's proxy, for that there was a strategic alliance of Russia with Serbia that included sending arms to the Serbs probably in exchange for giving Russia the right to establish a military base in Serbia. The United States was not ready for that, so it forced a cessation of hostilities on Serbia.
Today Assad is doing just as bad things in Syria as in Serbia, but the United States is not attacking Syria directly. Apparently Russia has made it clear that if the United States or its allies directly attack Syria it will enter into a military conflict with those forces while standing by Assad's side. An exceptional situation is if there is a danger that chemical warfare agents will be in danger of spilling over into terrorist movements, then perhaps the United States will intervene directly in Syria.
Sorry for the typos, the tablet keyboard is garbage.
NATO is the number one terrorist organization in the world...
"It is possible to build a huge press 25 meters high and 50 meters wide and resistant to 2 ton bombs with a remote control
And just to help those who shoot at you"
And why don't the Arabs build a huge ram 25 meters high and 50 meters wide and resistant to 2 ton bombs with a remote control and just drive into Tel Aviv, do a tour of Mahane Yehuda and come back?
"What Israel needs is to respond with massive artillery fire on Gaza after every fire. Every time they fire they will get 1000 dead."
And why won't the Arabs respond with massive artillery fire on Ashkelon after every shot. That every time the Israelis shot they would get 1000 dead?
Where do we get the power they don't have?
Maybe because we don't use my father and I's suggestions, so we have F15s and chassis and they have clutches and charms.
There was one, Slobodan Milosevic from Serbia, who tried the exercise in Kosovo. Operated planes and tanks against Albanians with tractors, pissed off NATO, studied zoology about the excretory systems of fish, and died in prison.
Kosovo now belongs to the Albanians.
Moral of the story: the size of the ego should be synchronized with the size of the... well, it doesn't matter, the main thing is that it be synchronized.
I doubt the world will shut up about it….
If this happens, the whole world (the bastard) will turn to us and start condemning us, and the US in general can stop its aid to us.
Avi - I completely agree (really). This whole iron dome system may be beautiful in terms of technology, but it is a colossal failure of the system in dealing with terrorism.
Terrorism has to be dealt with without silk gloves and systems like Iron Dome only send a message to the enemy that he is on the right path and that soon we will break and fold.
What Israel needs is to respond with massive artillery fire on Gaza after every shot. that every time they shot they would get 1000 dead. In the beginning the world will shout, in the end CNN will get bored and no one will be interested anymore, and Gaza will realize that we are crazy and that it is not worth messing with us and that maybe it is really better to negotiate and compromise.
It is possible to build a huge press 25 meters high and 50 meters wide and resistant to 2 ton bombs with a remote control
And to simply run over someone who is shooting at you, you don't need anything, no enemy or building will stand up to it. We drive to the middle of Gaza slowly and carefully, beeping so that everyone will have time to evacuate.
Then camps outside Gaza only his silhouette will provide deterrence for 20 years
We have already built much bigger machines and the cost is like a big ship.