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Why Israel Needs More than Iron Dome to Thwart an Iranian Attack
(Wall Street Journal) Anat Peled - Israel is preparing for a coordinated attack from Iran and its allies that will present the biggest test yet for its multilayered air defense system. Iran has drones and ballistic missiles that Iron Dome isn't designed to stop. And Hizbullah has tens of thousands of mortars, rockets and precision-guided missiles that could threaten to overwhelm the country's defenses. In response, Israel and the U.S. have stitched together a bigger air-defense system to shoot down Iranian projectiles. "It's an entire system that is synchronized and works like a clock," said Yehoshua Kalisky, senior researcher at the Institute for National Security Studies in Tel Aviv. Much of it is coordinated through U.S. Central Command.