The effectiveness of missile defense can scarcely be inferred from the “sound and light show” that is Iron Dome.
Iron Dome battery deployed in the field. (Photo: Israel Defense Force / Wikimedia Commons)
Contrails, the wake of an aircraft usually created by water vapor in its exhaust. When you hear them mentioned these days, it’s usually an attempt to paint them as “chemtrails,” the supposed product of a secret government program for spraying chemical or biological agents on the public to various ends. But contrails happen to be key to the effectiveness — or lack thereof — of Israel’s iron dome mobile missile defense program.
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