Oh poor Israel thought Iron Dome will protect them. Iran learned a lot from Ukraine. Drones in masses are enough to penetrate the shield. And don’t forget that the Iron Dome costs Israel 1 billion USD for each night in full defence mode. It only takes a couple of days, weeks until the Iron Dome is empty.

[–] stray@pawb.social 19 points 1 year ago

Emphasis on the USD?

[–] StupidBrotherInLaw@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Where are you getting this $1B figure? It appears the main cost is rockets, which run about $50k per. $1B would account for launching 20,000 rockets. There are 10 batteries in Israel with at most 80 rockets each, so a maximum of 800 rockets. That means 25 reloads a day. Is it really burning through that many rockets daily or is there more to this?

[–] valkyrieangela@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I would assume that operational and logistics costs apply to this figure. Aka shipping and handling, which is never free.

[–] zr0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 1 year ago

This. And all the repairs. Also we’re talking here about military stuff. You don’t use FedEx to ship that. Military personell + equipment is expensive as fuck. Efficiency is not of priority.

[–] slaneesh_is_right@lemmy.org 11 points 1 year ago

War is such an insanely expensive hobby it makes me kinda sick.

[–] humanspiral@lemmy.ca 11 points 1 year ago

Know that US gives fake loans (forgiven the same day) for all IDF expenses. This is somehow not part of US miitary budget even though they pay for everything.