10-25-2024, 08:01 PM
(10-01-2024, 05:59 PM)KKLoco Wrote: So I came across this video of tons of bombs raining down on Tel Aviv tonight. Why do they say the iron dome is 90% accurate? In this video, it looks like it has about 10% accuracy, as bombs are reaching their targets. Please help this dummy understand. Make sure and watch the entire 4 minute video. It escalates as it progresses.
[Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ALi80XzuBOk]
It's because of the way missile defense works. Iron Dome doesn't try to protect everything in Israel. Missile defense works by protecting specific areas, that are considered high value areas. If 100 missiles are fired, by only a few go towards where Iron Dome is protecting, and it stops 90% of them, then it has a 90% effectiveness. You can't protect an entire country with missile defense systems, so you protect what's most valuable. If Iron Dome sees 10 missiles coming towards it, and predicts that none of them are going to impact the area that it's protecting, it won't fire on them. On the other hand, if all 10 are predicted to impact in the area it's protecting, it's going to fire on all of them.
Logic is dead. Long live BS.
