Zionist Colonel: Iron Dome Not Reliable
TEL AVIV (Dispatches) -- Yossi Langotsky, retired colonel of the Israeli occupation army, has warned that the Iron Dome missile system is not reliable, pointing to the recent Gaza wars in which the system failed to repel Palestinian rockets.
Online newspaper Rai al-Youm cited Langotsky writing in Hebrew newspaper Maariv that Israel should not depend on one system in any future war because the rockets would be able to cause harm to the occupying regime’s strategic facilities.
Langotsky, a former adviser on technological safety to the Zionist war minister, said the Iron Dome will only afford partial and limited protection against Palestinian rockets in any future war.
He noted that the Iron Dome has several weaknesses, including in intercepting short-distance rockets, as well as its inability to intercept long-range ballistic rockets.
Each Iron Dome rocket costs the Zionist regime about $100,000, he said, with two rockets often needed to intercept a Palestinian missile, leaving Tel Aviv forced to store a large cache of military equipment.
"This needs billions of U.S. dollars; thus, the army will not be able to deploy the Iron Dome unless for a limited period and producing new rockets will take a long time,” he said.
He also argued that the occupying regime of Israel should not have built its strategic defense depending on one technology. From the beginning, he said, the regime should have built its military strategy on two or more technologies.
The fully mobile system carries ten kilograms of explosives and can allegedly intercept an incoming projectile from four to 70 kilometers away.
Online newspaper Rai al-Youm cited Langotsky writing in Hebrew newspaper Maariv that Israel should not depend on one system in any future war because the rockets would be able to cause harm to the occupying regime’s strategic facilities.
Langotsky, a former adviser on technological safety to the Zionist war minister, said the Iron Dome will only afford partial and limited protection against Palestinian rockets in any future war.
He noted that the Iron Dome has several weaknesses, including in intercepting short-distance rockets, as well as its inability to intercept long-range ballistic rockets.
Each Iron Dome rocket costs the Zionist regime about $100,000, he said, with two rockets often needed to intercept a Palestinian missile, leaving Tel Aviv forced to store a large cache of military equipment.
"This needs billions of U.S. dollars; thus, the army will not be able to deploy the Iron Dome unless for a limited period and producing new rockets will take a long time,” he said.
He also argued that the occupying regime of Israel should not have built its strategic defense depending on one technology. From the beginning, he said, the regime should have built its military strategy on two or more technologies.
The fully mobile system carries ten kilograms of explosives and can allegedly intercept an incoming projectile from four to 70 kilometers away.