2023-10-12 13:04:00
October 12, 2023, 6:34 PM IST Photo: AFP
EThe attack by Hamas was unexpected for Israel. Although initially faltering, all the defense systems of Israel started working efficiently. Iron Dome, Israel’s largest defense system, was constantly in operation, along with Iron Beams, to destroy Hamas’ thousands of missiles. According to the reports, the operation of Iron Dome has been very helpful in effectively countering the further attacks of Hamas.
After a while, Israel is once more defiled with blood. Common people are also killed in missiles fired at each other. The age-old enmity is reaching its worst crisis. Thousands of lives have already been lost on both sides. Both countries are fighting each other with advanced weapons and defense systems.
When Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu threatened to ‘kill all the people in the Hamas organization’, Hamas commander Mahmoud al-Zahr’s counter-threat was that ‘Israel is only their first target, the whole world will come under their rule’. The United States has also come to Israel’s aid in the fight once morest Hamas. The US has promised Israel a warship with sophisticated systems.
Amid news of attacks, casualties and deaths, Israel’s ‘Iron Dome’ defense was the most talked regarding. Iron Dome is touted as Israel’s strongest defense once morest rocket attacks. But before dawn overnight, Israel fired thousands of rockets from Hamas into the sky.
‘This is our 9/11 or Pearl Harbor moment. They shocked us. They came from many places at high speed, from the air, from the land, from the sea’ – this is how Israel Defense Forces spokesman Major Nir Dinar responded following the Hamas attack. The depth of the shock caused by Hamas is evident from his words.
Hamas began where it had led Israel to believe the offensive had ended. For the past two years, there have been no attacks or counter-attacks in either country. But reports say that Hamas was preparing the warm-up once morest Israel all this time. Everything was top secret. Archyde.com reports, citing sources close to it, that Hamas has successfully created the impression that Israel is not ready to fight. In the meantime, it is reported that Hamas has secretly trained its members.
Operation Al Aqsa Flood
About 5,000 rockets were fired at Israel from the Gaza Strip within 20 minutes of declaring war under the name of Operation Al-Aqsa Flood. Israelis woke up on Saturday to air raid sirens. Before Israel knew what was happening, the sky was raining fire. With this, the work of Iron Dome, which is described as Israel’s largest defense system, doubled. However, there has also been widespread discussion of how Hamas’ missiles rained down on Israel, breaking through the biggest defenses.
Iron Dome was the first to falter before Hamas
It is reported that Hamas has more than 1.5 lakh rockets. Many of these incorporate state-of-the-art technologies. Palestinian media reports that Hamas’ weapons capacity is sufficient to launch more than 1,000 rockets per day. It should be understood that Hamas’s storage capacity of rockets and the system for launching them have been greatly doubled.
It is estimated that Hamas had more than 4,000 rockets in its hands during the 2014 Gaza war. The maximum number of rockets they fired in a single day during the Gaza war was 200. It is at that location that more than 100 rockets are being fired into Israel every minute. There are reports that a mass missile attack was able to destroy Israel’s Iron Dome. The heavy casualties in Israel corroborate these claims.
Israel claims Iron Dome has 90 percent accuracy in its experience so far, but many of the system’s weaknesses have been discussed with Hamas’ missile year. But Israel has strengthened its defenses by closing all loopholes
Iron Dome was born during the Israel-Lebanon war
After the 2006 war between Israel and Lebanon, Israel considered the Iron Dome air defense system. Thousands of rockets fired by Lebanon in this war have been fatal attacks on Israel. The very next year, Israel announced that it was developing a new air defense system to combat airstrikes on its cities.
Any airborne attack by the enemy should be able to be defeated in the air. The mechanism for this was mainly Israel’s thinking. Thus, Iron Dome is built with the aim of destroying the enemy’s short-range rockets with a missile counterattack. Iron Dome can destroy various types of air attacks like rockets, mortars, planes, helicopters and drones.
Iron Dome was developed by Israel’s Rafale Advanced Defense System. The Iron Dome Research Unit is funded by the United States. It is reported that in 2016, the United States spent five billion dollars on this. The research and construction of the Iron Dome is important in diplomatic relations between the United States and Israel. In August 2019, the United States had signed an agreement to purchase two Iron Dawn batteries from Rafale.
It costs fifty thousand dollars to blow up a rocket
An iron dome has three units. A ‘battery’ of Iron Dome consists of a radar system to detect enemy rockets, a counterattack control system (Battle Management and Weapon Control System-BMC) and three launchers that fire missiles. Each launcher has 20 counter-attack missiles ready. The ‘Tamir’ missiles used in this have a range of 4 to 70 km.
All the above mentioned three units will be placed in different places. This is the main difference between Iron Launcher and other rocket launcher batteries. The launchers installed at different locations will be controlled through a wireless system. Israel claims that each battery can protect an area of 150 square kilometers. Iron Dome can operate efficiently during night and day and in adverse weather conditions. It can also hit multiple targets at once. Each missile launch to destroy a rocket costs regarding fifty thousand dollars.
Iron Dome’s first ‘battery’ was installed in 2011 in the city of Beersheva, located 40 kilometers from Gaza, a regular Hamas stronghold in Israel. Later, at different times, Israel established ten batteries in various cities. Israel, a constant conflict zone, needs 13 batteries of Iron Dome to protect its borders, military experts say. Rafale, the manufacturer, claims a 90 percent success rate for the Iron Dome. But experts say the accuracy is above 80 percent.
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