Wilshire@sh.itjust.worksM to CombatVideos@sh.itjust.worksEnglish · edit-21 month agoIron Dome missile changes target midcourse.i.imgur.comvideomessage-square11fedilinkarrow-up157arrow-down14file-text
arrow-up153arrow-down1videoIron Dome missile changes target midcourse.i.imgur.comWilshire@sh.itjust.worksM to CombatVideos@sh.itjust.worksEnglish · edit-21 month agomessage-square11fedilinkfile-text
minus-squareMadison420@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·1 month agoRadar guided via eletro optic signal, they don’t know much but the ground does. The whole point is the missile is very cheap for a missile and all the fun stuff is ground based inside of the protective sphere of influence.
minus-squareMadison420@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·1 month agoCompared to ciws, cram, phalanx it’s pretty expensive sure but it’s also less vulnerable to saturation by dumb weapons than any of those others.
minus-squareMadison420@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 month agoCiws no matter how good so long as it’s a single gun can only intercept a single target at a time. Ciws saturation is literally more than one. A single iron dome launcher can intercept 20 from any launcher and track and engage 36 from any one radar iirc. Low angle saturation is the weakness of any rocket/artillery interceptor, and depletion issues go the same with any weapon system.
minus-squareTriflingToad@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·29 days agothey were referencing a copypasta
Radar guided via eletro optic signal, they don’t know much but the ground does. The whole point is the missile is very cheap for a missile and all the fun stuff is ground based inside of the protective sphere of influence.
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Compared to ciws, cram, phalanx it’s pretty expensive sure but it’s also less vulnerable to saturation by dumb weapons than any of those others.
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Ciws no matter how good so long as it’s a single gun can only intercept a single target at a time. Ciws saturation is literally more than one.
A single iron dome launcher can intercept 20 from any launcher and track and engage 36 from any one radar iirc.
Low angle saturation is the weakness of any rocket/artillery interceptor, and depletion issues go the same with any weapon system.
they were referencing a copypasta