Re: Interesting - Ukraine Missiles Use Open Source, Russians Use Pi-4s

On Tue, 21 Jul 2026 21:25:45 -0400, c186282 wrote:

>    SO ... the USA/west needs something at least as good, and CHEAP, as
>    "Irondome". This IS the paradigm for 21st century conflicts - send a
>    swarm of hornets instead of a battleship or masses of soldiers.

Tamir rockets aren't cheap. However the US has provided about $2.6 billion 
to the program. I assume much of that trickled back to Raytheon.

The US will have the Golden Dome sometime around the 12th of Never. Being 
Trump, it has to be Golden of course. I think someplace buried in the 
Pentagon Reagan's Star Wars scheme is alive and well on a ventilator. 
CHEAP ain't happening.

You need to do a reality check about Iron Dome. Israel is larger than 
Connecticut and smaller than New Jersey. That doesn't scale well to the US 
or even Europe. It might work for Slovenia.

That bit of reality amazes me. If the Arabs ever got their act together 
they should be able to roll up the country like a rug. Of course there is 
Big Brother and the supposed atomic bombs.