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Don_Dickle to Today I [email protected]English • 10 months ago

TIL That each missile fired by Israels Iron Dome cost anywhere between 40k to 50k US per missile

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TIL That each missile fired by Israels Iron Dome cost anywhere between 40k to 50k US per missile

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Don_Dickle to Today I [email protected]English • 10 months ago
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Here's how Israel's 'Iron Dome' stops rockets — and why Ukraine doesn't have it
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The highly sophisticated, multibillion-dollar defense system has been under constant redevelopment since its inception in the early 2000s. Here's how it works.
  • Deceptichum
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    10 months ago

    The iron dome enables the genocide.

    Not really a hard choice for sane people.

    • @[email protected]
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      52•10 months ago

      So basically, your perspective is that a system that protects Israeli civilians is immoral because every single Israeli is immoral? Yeah, that seems very sane. /s

      • Deceptichum
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        21•10 months ago

        removed by mod

        • @[email protected]
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          23•10 months ago

          This is bordering on misinformation but I’m not going to act on that.

          The Iron Dome is primarily used to protect civilians, although it may also incidentally or occasionally be used to protect military targets as well.

          Israel does not use its own citizens as cover for military operations. Here is a map of military bases in Israel, which are separate from civilians as required by international law.

          There is no similar map of military sites in Gaza because Hamas uses civilian cover for military operations, including launching international attacks, from schools, mosques, churches, and hospitals.

          • @[email protected]
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            3•10 months ago

            Implying that Israel gives even the remotest shit about international law seems like misinformation.

            • @[email protected]
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              2•10 months ago

              IIRC correctly Geneva conventions only apply if both sides adhere to it

          • goferking (he/him)
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            3•10 months ago

            https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/aug/14/israeli-forces-in-gaza-use-civilians-as-human-shields-against-possible-booby-traps

            Oh so much better if they don’t use their own civilians…

          • @[email protected]
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            1•10 months ago

            Operation Shark. This is literally Palestine taking a page from proto isrealis terrorists which by the by dug a significant amount of the smuggling tunnels which is also how Israel know they exist.

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            Israel does not use its own citizens as cover for military operations

            you’re right, the Palestinians they literally drag around as human shields aren’t citizens, they are just the people who lived on the land before the Israeli state decided that Palestine never existed. They do however make great reactive armor.

            but that’s also not new

        • @[email protected]
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          30•10 months ago

          We do blame Israel. In the mean time, this piece of technology is actively saving the lives of innocent people. Of all the weird things to be upset about, the one that’s explicitly defensive maybe the weirdest.

    • @[email protected]
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      8•10 months ago

      Iron enables the genocide.

      Not really a hard choice for sane people.

      • @[email protected]
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        Nice alt account bro

        • @[email protected]
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          2•10 months ago

          No idea what that means 😂

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