Comment Re:Test them in Ukraine today... (Score 1) 208
And 99% of hamas missiles fall down to some farm field, wilderness, and do not do any damage at all.
A bold-faced lie — by an anonymous asshole, no less. The statistics of Iron Dome's effectiveness are being discussed all over the net. The site of consensus cites the following numbers:
In November 2012, during Operation Pillar of Defense, the Iron Dome's effectiveness was estimated by Israeli officials at between 75 and 95 percent. According to Israeli officials, of the approximately 1,000 missiles and rockets fired into Israel by Hamas from the beginning of Operation Pillar of Defense up to 17 November 2012, Iron Dome identified two thirds as not posing a threat and intercepted 90 percent of the remaining 300. During this period the only Israeli casualties were three individuals killed in missile attacks after a malfunction of the Iron Dome system.
So, 2/3rds — not 99% — were deemed not worth intercepting. 270 of the remaining 300 were intercepted. If the thirty rockets, that did get through managed to kill 3 Israelis between them, it is fair to extrapolate, that — without the system in place — the 30 would've been killed.
But good at one thing - defence industry pork money.
Yeah, yeah. Unable to defeat Israel on the battlefields of real wars, the whining Arab pussies have switched to terrorism and propaganda. Trying to convince American taxpayers, their monetary help to Israel is being wasted, is part of the latter.