[ars]

The enemy does actually do that now. Firing a dud is pointless since the cost of the rocket is the same, but they do fire many at once.

So what the system does is calculate the trajectory of the rocket to see if it will hit anything populated, only a small portion of them do.

[kamaal]

>>Firing a dud is pointless since the cost of the rocket is the same

If this is the case. Then in the presence of Iron dome, only impact those rockets have is in scaring away people.

It hardly makes any sense to fire a barrage of rockets in this case. A more optimal strategy is fire them a few at a time spread out over a period of time.

Either way Iron dome will still remain expensive.

[ars]

You are forgetting that Israel [tries to] destroys the launcher and the attacker after every launch. So every rocket attack is basically a suicide attack.

I think that's the main cause of most of the civilian death - Israel doesn't have time to check for civilians in the area, they counter attack almost instantly.

So they'll launch a bunch while they can before they die.

I don't think you can really comprehend the level of hate going on there that would make someone suicide and take civilians with him for even a tiny chance of killing an Israeli.