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One decade since its appearance, Iron Dome has intercepted 2,500 enemy rockets … and counting
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Ten years have passed since the Iron Dome air-defense system, produced by Rafael Advanced Defense Systems, made its first revolutionary interception of a Gazan rocket in Israeli skies in 2011. Since then the system has conducted more than 2,500 successful real-world interceptions, preventing large-scale carnage in Israeli cities.
It has achieved an interception rate of more than 90 percent and is considered an essential element of Israeli security, on standby against enemy arsenals threatening the Israeli home front from north to south.
While Iron Dome is indispensable today, it had to overcome some preconceived notions about the role of air defense in security before first making its appearance.