While Israelis who have endured years of rocket fire from Gaza are sure to welcome Iron Dome, the system does not have wall-to-wall support.
“Maybe it will be good during times like this when you have 10 rockets, but not for a war. If you invest in such a system, I think you’re going to go bankrupt,” said Gabriel Saboni, the head of the military research program at Israel’s Institute for National Security Studies.
Iron Dome is one part of a larger strategy that includes more tanks and dozens of new armored personnel carriers equipped with technology to repel anti-tank missiles.