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Iron dome is designed for cheaper rockets like Qassams from Hezbollah. They are effective agaimst cheap rockets and loitering/flying drones. Iron Domebwas always designed to be more expensive than what it takes out so that citizens would stay aligned.
True, but not at the scale we are seeing. They don't have enough interceptors to defend, and likely their opponents knew that this would play out this way. They simply can not out produce drones with those pricey interceptors.
People can count the number of launchers in a battery, and number of interceptors in a launcher. They can then take this information and send more cheap easy to produce drones vs the air defense systems. Once those systems are compromised they can strike with little opposition any target in the area that system covered, with little chance of the defenders being able to regain "missile/drone superiority" in that area. Its a wild thing to see but the iron dome concept on its own has a major flaw once the attacks come in cheap and heavy.
Very much agree. I think that volume in asymmetry will beat any defense, even the lazers.
I am no expert though.
Lazers are neat and could work well for ships or static facilities where the power systems can be defended and the area to defend is small. They don't really have the same hard limits to overwhelm as more traditional systems, but who knows if other limits will be present like say number of targets they can engage at a time. Lets say its the case of 3 targets can be engaged at the same time and the time before impact gives the lazers 3 chances to eliminate (as they do need time on target for effect, its not quite starwars blasters), giving the system a limit of 9 per incoming volley. That would be easy to over come, but what if its not 3 but 300 and time allows 40 attempts? The systems could be fantastic, or a small speed bump.