Iron Beam Makes Israel’s Missile Defence Problem Permanent
Israel's Iron Beam laser defence system doesn’t make Israel’s air defence cheaper - it doubles them and makes the costs permanent! Right, so Israel has just locked itself into a problem it can’t engineer its way out of, and it’s called Iron Beam, they’re fancy new laser defence system being sold as a cheap as chips alternative to the likes of the Iron Dome and David’s Sling. The trouble is, somebody has done the actual sums and what’s being sold as a cheap answer to retaliation is actually a permanent cost, a permanent dependency, and a permanent admission that their whole air defence…
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