Following Hamas' surprise attack on Israel, the country’s billion dollar Iron Dome is being called into question.  Israel’s Iron Dome is considered a highly effective missile defense system, with its latest success rating of 96% in destroying rockets fired from Gaza in May 2023, according to Israeli Defense Forces. So how did rockets get through? The militant group said it launched 5,000 rockets in 20 minutes – Israeli Defense Forces said 2,200 were fired – that overwhelmed the Iron Dome system. An attack of that intensity can exhaust defensive missile stockpiles, which take time to reload. Even if a lower number of 2,200 to 3,000 missiles were fired in 20 minutes, the quantity "was simply too much for Iron Dome to manage," according to an analysis by the Modern War Institute at West Point. Read more at the link in our bio.