From: Dhu on Gate <campbell@neotext.ca>
Newsgroups: can.politics,alt.politics
Subject: Re: Gold Cone likely no more effective than Iron Hat
Date: Sat, 14 Jun 2025 13:47:23 -0000 (UTC)
Organization: A noiseless patient Spider
On Sat, 14 Jun 2025 13:39:00 -0000 (UTC), Dhu on Gate wrote:
> as seen from the ground in Tel-Aviv
> https://www.aljazeera.com/gallery/2025/6/14/iran-launches-retaliatory-strikes-on-israel
"Oh I'm dreaming of a white Christmas":
https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/AP25165159486031-1749886517.jpg
That'd be me3.
Dhu
>
> The BEEG difrense between the Iron Dome and Gold Dome is
> likely to be C0$T. We can expect the Golden Dome to deliver
> *many times* the cost/benefit of the Iron Hat for minimal
> real performance gains: some gormless grift to the MICies
> that may (we can only hope) never be tested.
>
> If it don't work against Iranian Rockets, it won't work
> against Russian or Chinese, either.
>
> Dhu
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