That’s actually a very low price for an anti-air missile. For comparison, the Stinger shoulder-fired missile costs more than twice as much. A Patriot missile costs four million dollars (but is much more capable). Presumably minimizing cost was a high priority when this missile was designed. Nonetheless, the cost asymmetry is one reason why degrading the ability of Hamas and Hezbollah to fire missiles at Israel is important.
Absolutely. In the late '80s I was part of an anti-tank guided missile evaluation; each rocket cost around $70k then, so around $185k per today.
Also, depends on what version and flavor of PAC it is
Hamas and Hezbollah are firing any tubes filled with any propellant they can find. you want to reduce the capabilities of groups like Hamas and Hezbollah? don’t fucking go around running an apartheid ethnostate and annexing land on the basis of blood and soil.
Cheap for a missile, but using soft power tends to be more effective, both economically and less destructive. You know, like not pissing off all your neighbors and taking folk’s land.
We can haz better healthcare and less income inequality?
Look! A communist! Get em!
Each missile per missile? Dang.
Ugh, that title.
The system can be overwhelmed by having too many incoming rockets, so it does have its limits.
It essentially prevented a full scale armed conflict like this past year from 2011-2023. How many lives has it saved over that 12 years?
The lives they kill are worth so much more so its worth it to them?
How do they justify stuff like this.
“We think these people are worthless and we want their land. So now we spend big capital destroying that land”
Not a single rhetoric i can make up with makes even evil sense.
What is their left to gain after all the costs?
The lives they kill are worth so much more so its worth it to them?
The Iron Dome is defensive. It kills rockets, not people.
Colonists can never claim to be defending themselves.
I believe the Iron Dome is literally just a defensive tool though, like it intercepts missiles fired at it
to quote bomber Harris: “The Nazis entered this war under the rather childish delusion that they were going to bomb everybody else and nobody was going to bomb them”
imagine if the Germans had an iron dome
What are you even saying?
