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and his team in the Administration for the Development of Weapons and Technological Infrastructure ( Maf'at) needed an appropriate name for the system. There are estimates of the numbers and types of rockets, and their range and payload.
Range varies widely, and guidance systems are lacking, but accuracy has improved over the years. In May 2021 it was estimated that Palestinian militant groups had an arsenal of about 30,000 rockets and mortar bombs in Gaza, potential targets, when fired, for Iron Dome. Since then, the $210 million system has been developed by Rafael Advanced Defense Systems working jointly with the IDF. In February 2007, Defense Minister Amir Peretz selected Iron Dome as Israel's defense against this short-range rocket threat. Nearly a million Israelis living in the south were within rocket range, posing a serious security threat to the country and its citizens. Almost all of the rockets fired were Qassams launched by 122 mm Grad launchers smuggled into the Gaza Strip, giving longer range than other launch methods. To the south, more than 8,000 projectiles (estimated at 4,000 rockets and 4,000 mortar bombs) were fired indiscriminately into Israeli population centers from Gaza between 20, principally by Hamas. The rocket barrage killed 44 Israeli civilians and caused some 250,000 Israeli citizens to evacuate and relocate to other parts of Israel while an estimated 1 million Israelis were confined in or near bomb shelters during the conflict. ĭuring the 2006 Second Lebanon War, approximately 4,000 Hezbollah-fired rockets (the great majority of which were short-range Katyusha rockets) landed in northern Israel, including on Haifa, the country's third largest city. He also helped persuade key politicians to support the project. Gold was a strong backer of the antimissile project, even skirting army contracting regulations to secure financing. Daniel Gold as the head of the research and development bureau of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF). In 2004, the idea for Iron Dome gained momentum with the installation of Brig. defense officials cautioned that it would be "doomed to fail". Israel had floated the idea of its own short-range antimissile system, but U.S. Hezbollah, based in Lebanon, fired rockets into northern Israeli population centers in the 1990s, posing a security challenge for the Israel Defense Forces. See also: Second Lebanon War § Israeli civilians, and Palestinian rocket attacks on Israel
Iron Dome ( Hebrew: כִּפַּת בַּרְזֶל, romanized: Kippat Barzel) is a mobile all-weather air defense system developed by Rafael Advanced Defense Systems and Israel Aerospace Industries. US Ambassador Dan Shapiro visits the Battle Management & Control (BMC) unit of the Iron Dome