1y ago

TIL That each missile fired by Israels Iron Dome cost anywhere between 40k to 50k US per missile

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Here's how Israel's 'Iron Dome' stops rockets — and why Ukraine doesn't have it

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Cheap for a missile, but using soft power tends to be more effective, both economically and less destructive. You know, like not pissing off all your neighbors and taking folk's land.
- but then how will I take their land?
  
  Allow me to introduce the G brothers - Gerrymandering and Gentrification.
That doesn’t sound like an unreasonable price for a missile interceptor; those things have to be fast and precise. If anything, it looks like they have reasonable economies of scale going for them.
TIL Each missile fired by Israel cost $15k to build and the US taxpayer paid 40-50k for them to line the pockets of a few billionaires
Sorted that title for you
- I here I initially only had an issue with the phrasing "Each missile [...] per missile".
We can haz better healthcare and less income inequality?
Meanwhile they're not even supplying Gaza with Iron Dome to protect civilians from the ongoing genocide...smh
- If you don't mind me ask what does smh mean?
  
  Shake/Shaking my head
  
  Shaking my head
  
  I usually take SMH as them saying they're nodding in disapproval or judgment. It's kind of like how a wise adult would see two immature kids having a disagreement over something insignificant and easy to resolve, but their egos get in the way. The adult would nod and perhaps sigh or say, "tsk, tsk," to themselves. Anyone else see it this way or differently?
Each missile per missile? Dang.
The lives they kill are worth so much more so its worth it to them?
How do they justify stuff like this.
“We think these people are worthless and we want their land. So now we spend big capital destroying that land”
Not a single rhetoric i can make up with makes even evil sense.
What is their left to gain after all the costs?
- The lives they kill are worth so much more so its worth it to them?
  The Iron Dome is defensive. It kills rockets, not people.
  
  Colonists can never claim to be defending themselves.
It essentially prevented a full scale armed conflict like this past year from 2011-2023. How many lives has it saved over that 12 years?
Ugh, that title.
The system can be overwhelmed by having too many incoming rockets, so it does have its limits.

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