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Iron Dome is at risk of being defeated through depletion of missiles (nitter.net)
submitted 2 years ago by to c/palestine@lemmygrad.ml
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[–] 34 points 2 years ago (12 children)

80k for a missile is absolutely insane 😂

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  • [–] 26 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    Isn't that cheap actually? Patriot SAM is 4 mil a shot

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  • [–] 17 points 2 years ago

    I might be misremembering, but doesn't the iron dome rely pretty heavily on volume of missiles being shot as a defensive response rather than precision accuracy? Meaning each missile might "only" be 80k but they are launching like a dozen of them?

    80k is still hundreds of times more than the rockets Hamas is using anyway.

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  • [–] 26 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    80k for a missile

    This can mean only one thing... Israel's national security depends on the US dollar collapsing :inshallah:

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  • [–] 20 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (3 children)

    That’s extremely cheap, most modern munitions are hundreds of thousands, if not millions of dollars.

    Even a 70’s rinky dink Soviet Strela-2 MANPAD is $120,000 per unit.

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  • [–] 19 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    For reference, you can buy a decent > 300hp tractor for 80k. Isnt it absurd that these expendable missiles are on the same price range as a whole damn tractor 😂

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  • [–] 18 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Even putting aside the obvious grift/profit factor of these being made by capitalist companies, the raw materials and engineering that goes into making something that can maneuver at Mach 10 while trying to hit a moving target also moving at Mach 10 aren't cheap.

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  • [–] 15 points 2 years ago

    A massive amount of the cost comes from the computers, miniaturized guidance and targeting systems, the immense engineering and comp-sci R&D behind those devices, and the sheer difficulty of designing good explosives.

    Even dumb bombs are expensive if you don't want them to dud, explode randomly, not be aerodynamic, and so on.

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