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In short: Rafael’s Spike anti-tank missile can lock on before launch and guide itself, but its longer-range versions trail a fiber-optic cable back to the operator. That link lets the…
In short: active protection systems detect an incoming rocket with radar and fire a countermeasure at it in a few milliseconds, before it reaches the hull. Steel still matters, but…
In short: a large share of drone defeats never involve an interceptor. Electronic warfare attacks the link and the navigation signal instead of the airframe, costs almost nothing per engagement,…
In short: a warship defends itself under conditions a land battery never faces, including a moving launch platform, a magazine it cannot reload at sea, and a radar horizon that…
In short: most people picture Arrow 3 as a taller Iron Dome that reaches higher. It is not. Arrow 3 leaves the atmosphere and destroys a warhead in space, hundreds…
In short: David’s Sling covers the gap between short-range rockets and long-range ballistic missiles, hitting cruise missiles, aircraft and large rockets at ranges Iron Dome was never built for. It…
In short: a small drone is slow, low and quiet, which sounds easy to counter but actually defeats systems built for fast, high-flying threats. Radar struggles to separate a plastic…
In short: Interceptors get the glory, but the radar network decides the fight. Sensors detect, classify, and track a threat, then hand a fire-control quality track to the launcher. No…
In short: a laser interceptor is not a replacement for kinetic defenses. It shoots down slow, short-range threats like rockets and drones cheaply, but it struggles with clouds, rain, and…