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True. But they're unguided, almost none of them will cause real damage, but you have no choice but to take all of them out to prevent the losses from a lucky shot - at great expense. It's a great way to drain your enemies funds, great asymmetric warfare. Casualties are just icing on the cake.


Part of Iron Dome is trajectory analysis. If the profile of a target matches that of an unguided rocket and the CEP is in some unoccupied area, no interceptors are fired. If it looks like it'll land in a populated area, interceptors are fired. It doesn't just shoot everything in the sky.


Iron Dome is selective and only fires when the trajectory will go to a built up area.


It's also a great way to test and hone one's missile shield with live unscheduled "drills" that may not be drills.

Makes it a lot easier to get funding when requested too.




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