The Iron Dome - 90% Accuracy BS

[KrustyKrab]

Lastly just some data points for reference.  People commonly hear about "Patriot" missile batteries, but it's important to understand these aren't like 1-2 missiles on a truck which can just travel anywhere.  A Patriot "battery" is a whole system which includes (3-4) platoons of personnel along with officers to operate, command and control vehicles, multiple radars, and upwards of (6) missile batteries each capable of firing up to (16) missiles.  It sounds like a lot, but you don't just fire one missile at a time, and once you fire all the missiles on a given launcher it takes a couple whole platoons of personnel a couple hours to re-arm the system (assuming you have the munitions and service vehicles there to do it).  A single battery costs on the order of $2 billion (yes, 'billion') dollars, and requires (60-100) personnel to operate.  So, you can see how this is not something you could sustain for long duration / multiple wave attacks...over a vast area.  Now, this is only one type of defense, and there are other less expensive and more numerous systems, but they're also not as effective.  This is just one example (which is frequently bantered about in the media).  So, there's quite a bit of strategy in how you deploy and utilize these systems.  And, it's not like you have (50) of these systems just laying around (the cost alone would be stratospheric)

WOW, That’s crazy, I had no idea it was that involved and required that much manpower.