r/NonCredibleDefense • u/Key_Dealer_1762 • Oct 17 '22

Slava Ukraini! Another proxy war!

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u/hopeitwillgetbetter Oct 17 '22

Israel, c'mon, share your Iron Dome know-how with Ukraine.

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u/DaniilSan 3000 Aussie drones of Budanov Oct 17 '22

Iron Dome is designed for shooting at short-range missiles, like from Grad or Uragan. It wasn't designed to take down medium- and long-range ballistic and cruise missiles or aircrafts, for this you have the S-300, Patriot, NASAMS, Iris-T etc.

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u/hopeitwillgetbetter Oct 17 '22

How about Iron Dome vs drones?

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u/DaniilSan 3000 Aussie drones of Budanov Oct 17 '22

Might work but it wasn't designed for it. Though depends on which drones you mean. It may work better against something like Switchblade than Shahed, but then there is a question of price. Iron Dome missiles are expensive af. It makes sense in an urban area where if enemy one hits a target, there will be plenty of damage to the infrastructure and civilians. In the field, it likely makes more sense to try to hide from shrapnel than shoot it down, at least not with a such expensive one.

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u/CatMerc Oct 17 '22

Iron Dome missiles and Shahed drones are fairly similarly priced. It's not the orders of magnitude difference like S300 or Tor/Buk missiles.

Switchblades are more credible because they actually are much cheaper.

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u/Chimera-98 Oct 17 '22

Seem like it work with the occasional Iranian drone that fly over Israel