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'''Iron Dome''' (Hebrew: כִּיפַּת בַּרְזֶל, kipat barzel) is a mobile all-weather air defense system designed by Rafael Advanced Defense Systems [http://www.rafael.co.il]. It was developed to intercept and destroy [[artillery]] shells and short-range [[rocket]]s fired from distances of 4 to 70 kilometers away. The system, created as a defensive countermeasure to the rocket threat against [[Israel|Israel's]] civilian population, uses technology first employed in Rafael's SPYDER system [http://www.rafael.co.il/Marketing/186-704-en/Marketing.aspx]. Iron Dome was declared operational and initially deployed on 27 March 2011 near Beersheba. On 7 April 2011, the system successfully intercepted a Grad rocket launched from [[Gaza]] for the first time. The [[Jerusalem Post]] reported on 10 March 2012, that the system shot down 90% of rockets launched from Gaza it fired at (rockets which will land in unpopulated areas are ignored).

'''Iron Dome''' (Hebrew: כִּיפַּת בַּרְזֶל, kipat barzel) is a mobile all-weather air defense system designed by Rafael Advanced Defense Systems.<ref>http://www.rafael.co.il</ref> It was developed to intercept and destroy [[artillery]] shells and short-range [[rocket]]s fired from distances of 4 to 70 kilometers away. The system, created as a defensive countermeasure to the rocket threat against [[Israel|Israel's]] civilian population, uses technology first employed in Rafael's SPYDER system.<ref>http://www.rafael.co.il/Marketing/186-704-en/Marketing.aspx</ref> Iron Dome was declared operational and initially deployed on 27 March 2011 near Beersheba. On 7 April 2011, the system successfully intercepted a Grad rocket launched from [[Gaza]] for the first time. The [[Jerusalem Post]] reported on 10 March 2012, that the system shot down 90% of rockets launched from Gaza it fired at (rockets which will land in unpopulated areas are ignored).

 

 

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