🇮🇱 💥 Everyone thinks the Iron Dome failed yesterday. It didn't fail. It was never designed for what just happened.

Iron Dome was built to stop short range rockets from Hamas and Hezbollah . Cheap unguided projectiles on predictable flight paths. Radar spots them, a computer decides if they'll hit anyone, and a Tamir interceptor takes them out. 90% success rate.
Three things broke that equation yesterday:
▪️ Volume: 100 rockets launched simultaneously from multiple positions. Each battery holds 60 to 80 interceptors. You physically cannot stop more rockets than you have missiles.,
▪️ Coordination: Iran fired ballistic missiles from the east at the exact same time. Iron Dome handles short range. Arrow handles ballistic. Both systems maxed out simultaneously means the entire defense architecture is splitting attention.,
▪️ Economics: A Katyusha costs $300. A Tamir interceptor costs $50,000. Hezbollah spent maybe $30,000. Israel spent millions. Every interception is a financial loss for the defender.,
The Iron Dome is still the best missile defense system ever deployed. The problem is that "best" has a ceiling, and yesterday Hezbollah found it. Fire enough cheap rockets at the same time and the math simply doesn't work.
The dome didn't crack. It just ran out of room.