shen
Senior Member
Iron Dome is fine for dealing with a few rockets fired by irregular forces. But facing conventional military forces with batteries of artillery and MRL, one is going to quickly run out of missiles or become bankrupt from buying all the missiles.
Isn't Iron Dome basically an actively guided missile, a counter artillery radar and connected together with a smart battle management system that automatically calculates the trajectories of the targets and decide which ones should be intercepted?
An active radar missile is going to be more expensive than a command guided missile (doesn't have expensive radar seeker and on-board processor to calculate trajectory) such as TOR.
Most low cost guided rockets I'm aware of are suppose to engage ground targets. Using them against fast moving small air targets is going to be a much more challenging engineering problem.
Isn't Iron Dome basically an actively guided missile, a counter artillery radar and connected together with a smart battle management system that automatically calculates the trajectories of the targets and decide which ones should be intercepted?
An active radar missile is going to be more expensive than a command guided missile (doesn't have expensive radar seeker and on-board processor to calculate trajectory) such as TOR.
Most low cost guided rockets I'm aware of are suppose to engage ground targets. Using them against fast moving small air targets is going to be a much more challenging engineering problem.