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How Iran is tearing apart Israel's "Iron Dome" with cluster missiles

2026-03-25 19:24:48Kosova&Bota SHKRUAR NGA REDAKSIA VOX
How Iran is tearing apart Israel's "Iron Dome" with cluster
How Iran is tearing apart Israel's "Iron Dome" with cluster missiles

The elderly couple killed in their apartment in Ramat Gan, the destroyed houses around the Tel Aviv market, the craters on the main road and between the city's tree-lined boulevards. The Israeli defense system can do little against missiles that deliver cluster bombs: during the descent phase, the warhead releases dozens of smaller submunitions that can fall within a radius of up to eight kilometers. This has been especially true in recent days over the Mediterranean metropolis: if they do not explode and remain on the ground, these small shells turn into mines, the presence of which is only detected when an explosion occurs.

Cluster bombs were banned in 2008 by the UN-backed Oslo Convention: the production, use, sale and stockpiling of these weapons is prohibited. The United States, Israel and Iran (as well as Russia and China) have not adhered to them. Their use is considered a war crime; the Israelis have been accused of using them in southern Lebanon. They are particularly dangerous to the civilian population because their trajectory cannot be predicted and because they can become landmines. To destroy the warhead without releasing the submunitions, the missile must be hit in the exosphere or before it begins its descent.

How Iran is tearing apart Israel's "Iron Dome" with cluster

Otherwise, according to the army reconstruction, it was the case of two rockets that broke through the "Iron Dome" system, causing destruction between the palaces of Dimona and Arad, in the Negev desert: at least for Arad, where the wounded were 175, some very seriously, the troops would have used the "David's Sling", one of the three levels of protection. Neither Benjamin Netanyahu, who visited the point of impact among the ruins, nor the IDF spokesmen explained what the defect was.

The General Staff claims to have intercepted 90 percent of the rockets fired by the Islamic regime against Israel in the past three weeks, but it is not clear whether those destined to fall in uninhabited areas where countermeasures are not used are also counted. Analysts warn that the Jewish state risks being left without defensive missiles, commanders deny this, but Defense Ministry officials have flown to Washington to urgently request new supplies from the Americans.

The Iron Dome system was conceived by Amir Peretz, a former union leader who became defense minister. Criticized as a military leader for strategic errors during the 2006 Lebanon war, it is now praised for its vision that future conflicts would be about missiles and shells, starting with those of Hamas in Gaza and Hezbollah in Lebanon. Over the years, Iron Dome has evolved: the Arrow 3 missiles, developed with the United States, have been added to stop threats from outside the atmosphere. Since the 12-day clash with Iran in June last year, the United States has also deployed Thaad (Terminal High Altitude Area Defense) batteries in Israel. These new technologies have now completely replaced the American-made Patriot missiles that the Israelis had deployed during the First Gulf War to intercept Iraqi Scuds./ Corriere della Sera


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