{"id":50546,"date":"2018-04-16T11:09:51","date_gmt":"2018-04-16T15:09:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=50546"},"modified":"2024-09-01T09:56:05","modified_gmt":"2024-09-01T13:56:05","slug":"armstrong-as-missiles-fly-a-look-at-israels-iron-dome-interceptor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2018\/04\/armstrong-as-missiles-fly-a-look-at-israels-iron-dome-interceptor\/","title":{"rendered":"ARMSTRONG: As missiles fly, a look at Israel\u2019s Iron Dome interceptor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Armstrong, Associate Professor of Operations Research in\u00a0Brock\u2019s Goodman School of Business, wrote <a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/as-missiles-fly-a-look-at-israels-iron-dome-interceptor-94959?utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=Latest%20from%20The%20Conversation%20for%20April%2016%202018&amp;utm_content=Latest%20from%20The%20Conversation%20for%20April%2016%202018+CID_7e04b4f060080343196d809daf9e48cb&amp;utm_source=campaign_monitor_ca&amp;utm_term=As%20missiles%20fly%20a%20look%20at%20Israels%20Iron%20Dome%20interceptor\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a piece recently published in The Conversation<\/a> about the Iron Dome, Israel&#8217;s rocket interceptor systems.<\/p>\n<p>Armstrong writes:<\/p>\n<p><em>After the American-led missile salvo against Syria comes a barrage of\u00a0interception claims and counterclaims. Russia says Syrian air defences\u00a0shot down most of the missiles. But the U.S. says\u00a0all 105 cruise missiles reached their targets. That\u2019s despite some 40 Syrian interceptors being fired.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Given this new missile interception controversy, it\u2019s worth looking at another ongoing one.\u00a0Newly-published research\u00a0investigates the effectiveness of Israel\u2019s Iron Dome rocket interceptor systems.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>The Iron Dome arrives<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Iron Dome began operating in Israel in 2011. The systems achieved international fame during the country\u2019s 2012 and 2014 Gaza Strip conflicts. But they also triggered controversy about their true performance.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Each Iron Dome system includes a radar, computer and several launchers. The radar detects incoming rockets. The computer then estimates the impact points. If any rockets threaten valued targets, the launchers shoot them down.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Continue reading the full article <a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/as-missiles-fly-a-look-at-israels-iron-dome-interceptor-94959?utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=Latest%20from%20The%20Conversation%20for%20April%2016%202018&amp;utm_content=Latest%20from%20The%20Conversation%20for%20April%2016%202018+CID_7e04b4f060080343196d809daf9e48cb&amp;utm_source=campaign_monitor_ca&amp;utm_term=As%20missiles%20fly%20a%20look%20at%20Israels%20Iron%20Dome%20interceptor\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Armstrong, Associate Professor of Operations Research in\u00a0Brock\u2019s Goodman School of Business, wrote a piece recently published in The Conversation about the Iron Dome, Israel&#8217;s rocket interceptor systems.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":45641,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[39,6],"tags":[594,4395,5512],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50546"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50546"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50546\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50548,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50546\/revisions\/50548"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}