Check out the rockets being fired by the Hamas. Pretty crude by fairly cost effective. In contrast is Israel's horrendously expensive Iron Dome anti missile system which needless to say isn't 100% proof!
What an irony. A $40,000 missile which is part of a $50 million anti missile battery of the Iron Dome system, trying to block a few dollars worth of a rocket!! And still getting the stick!!
If this doesn't suck, what does?
This video is nonsense. Qassam is the lesser of our problems. Here the full inventory of Hamas rockets:
107 mm Type 63 - 8.5 km range - 8.3 kg warhead
115 mm Qassam - 16 km range - 10 kg warhead
122 mm Grad ------ 20 km range - 21 kg warhead
122 mm WS-1E --- 42 km range - 21 kg warhead
220 mm Ra'ad ------ 72 km range - 60 kg warhead
333 mm Fajr-5 ------ 70 km range - 150 kg warhead
302 mm WS-1 ------ 100 km range - 150 kg warhead
302 mm WS-1B ---- 180 km range - 150 kg warhead
The Iron Dome is rarely used vs the first two type of rockets because the range is too short for reaction and population centers within Qassam range are not big and well protected.
Grad rockets are not so cheap. Also they needed to be brought from abroad, what drastically increases their price.
In addition many of those rockets are destroyed in stores and majority are missing their target because they are fired from improvised launchers between houses.
Here a simple calculation: Grad rocket costs some 5$ K. Bringing it to Gaza costs another 10 K. Thats 15 mln for 1000 rockets. Out of these 15 mln half are destroyed by Israel in stores before being launch. Out of 500 rockets launched 400 miss their target and only 100 hit towns.
Bottom line
Gaza terrorists need to spend
15 mln $ to make 100 Grad hits.
Israel needs 40 k * 150 =
6 mln $ to protect towns from rockets (150 rockets because in some instances 2 interceptors are launched).
When it comes to rockets directed at Tel Aviv, they are much much heavier, expensive and hard to bring to Gaza. Gaza terrorists need to spend some
100 mln $ to make 100 Tel Aviv hits. Meanwhile Israel needs same exactly
6 mln $ to protect Tel Aviv. Ironically Ion Dome performs much better against longer range rockets (so far 100% success in Tel Aviv).
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Thats cost of rocket launches. But you should also keep in mind the cost of the damage that rocket can make. I Grad rocket can easily destroy a flat which costs 200,000 $, it can destroy several cars, kill people (average person produces over million $ of GNP not talking about the life itself). In some extreme cases it can hit some chemical factory or a Boeing plane which costs 200 mln.
Also the Iron Dome allows to have relatively normal life even under rocket attacks. Saving hundreds of millions of economical loses.
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Finally there is a moral value. If rockets were hitting Tel Aviv towers it would be a huge moral boost for terrorist, on the other hand when they launch hundreds of rockets and dont achieve anything beside own destruction thats huge moral blow to them.
Conclusion:
1) Iron Dome is actually cheaper than attacking rockets.
2) Iron Dome saves hundreds of millions of damage and economical loses.
3) Iron Dome destroys terrorist morale.
4) Iron Dome saves lives.
