13/7/2014 Globes English - Defense Prize winner Moti Shefer: Iron Dome is a bluff

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Defense Prize winner Moti Shefer: Iron

Dome is a bluff

13/07/2014, 12:54 Globes' correspondent

Brigadier General (res.) Daniel Gold: All interceptions are recorded and documented.

In an interview last Thursday with Radio 103, Israel Defense Prize winner and aerospace

engineering expert Dr. Moti Shefer stated simply that Iron Dome was one of the biggest

bluffs ever seen.

He said, "There is no missile in the world today able to intercept missiles or rockets. Iron

Dome is a sound and light show that is intercepting only Israeli public opinion, and itself,

of course. Actually, all the explosions you see in the sky are self explosions. No Iron Dome

missile has ever collided with a single rocket. Open spaces are a myth invented in order to

up Iron Dome's current interception percentages. The rockets announced as intercepted by

Iron Dome either never reach the ground, or are virtual rockets invented and destroyed on

the Iron Dom control computer. To this day, no one has ever seen an intercepted rocket fall

to the ground."

He continued, "What lands here is what's launched. The parts we see on the ground are

from Iron Dome itself. We're shooting at ourselves, mainly virtually. The virtual rocket was

invented in order to increase the vagueness surrounding Iron Dome. Assume that a real

rocket arrives. What does the command and control system do? It creates nine more

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13/7/2014 Globes English - Defense Prize winner Moti Shefer: Iron Dome is a bluff

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virtual rockets, and transmits their paths on computer graphics to the rocket launcher

operators. The launcher operators see 10 rockets and launch 10 Iron Dome interceptors.

People hear 10 booms, one rocket enters, and you get a 90% success rate."

According to Dr. Shefer, Iron Dome is a part of a broad conspiracy, in which two interested

parties afraid of peace are participating: the defense industries and Prime Minister

Benjamin Netanyahu.

Brigadier General (res.) Daniel Gold, who initiated Iron Dome, responded scornfully: "I

won't make personal remarks here. Let him believe what he wants to believe. Anyone can

see what the truth is here. All the interceptions to date are recorded and documented.

We're the startup nation because of things like this, and this is much bigger than a startup.

They put 300-400 of the most talented people here, who worked like crazy, with

determination. It works."

Dr. Shefer's ideas for developing interception systems were universally rejected before Iron

Dome was developed.

Published by Globes [online], Israel business news - www.globes-online.com - on July 13, 2014

Copyright of Globes Publisher Itonut (1983) Ltd. 2014

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