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Israel to invest nearly a billion dollars in the Iron Dome. Jerusalem, May 9 () .- Israel to invest nearly a billion additional dollars in the new Iron Dome dnse system, the world's first rocket capable of shooting down of tiny tamaoy was recently tested a high percentage of success on the border with Gaza.
The director general of the Ministry of Dnce, Udi Shani, said in an interview with Haaretz newspaper that five passes have shown interest in the new device,, wow power leveling, an in beta and take at least five you in reaching a fully operational phase.
Last March, in a short cycle of violence between Israel and the Islamist movement Hams, the Iron Dome Gotta knock down at least eight of the eleven targets against which it was fired, following filtering of those rockets that were to fall in uninhabited areas and therefore, eve isk for sale, deserve not to be intercepted.
Even so Shani warned that "we must adjust our expectations of the Iron Dome, both the public and the political leader", because "there is a system that can ensure each rocket interceptacin" .
Among the main challenges of the Iron Dome est to reduce considerably the manufacturing costs investigaciny because each interceptor rocket costs about, aion kinah cheap, 40,000 dollars compared to several hundred dollars of the rocket down.
The exportation is one of you that the senior dnse official is more conducive to fund a project that has consumed nearly a billion dollars and who is awaiting a budget of 205 million U.S. aid to continue.
The United States is, according to authoritative sources and experts, one of the countries interested in equipping their forces effectively a protection against this type of attack scenarios both public and Afghanistan.