Nope. I was flabbergasted. I worded my response badly. The author must have been on drugs and was hallucinating. I mean how could he spin this missile attack into money-making project for Palestinians?!
I spent a fair amount of time in trying to read behind the paywall ..
The April 13 Israeli skeet shoot—knocking out 99% of the approximately 170 drones, 120 ballistic missiles and 30 cruise missiles Iran launched toward the Jewish state—was a technological tour de force. It combined difficult math, real-time sensors, sophisticated software and no small amount of artificial intelligence to guide advanced hardware, propulsion systems, explosives and lasers. That one night probably cost more than $1 billion. “We intercepted. We thwarted. Together we will win,” Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu tweeted.
Now make it profitable—and use it to promote Palestinian prosperity. These defenses against incoming threats are a marvel. Israel’s Iron Dome, like Raytheon’s Patriot air-defense system, was designed mainly to take out short-range rockets. Patriot missiles can cost $4 million each, while Iron Dome missiles are $40,000 to $50,000, helpful given the sheer number of cheap Israel-bound rockets. In an asymmetric-warfare world, defense is still expensive.
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