Does Israel retain hope it can bombard its way to victory against Hezbollah's civilian-killing rocket strategy under a laser shield?
Israel hopes to have laser air defenses:
In early 2022 Israel announced that it was going to deploy a “laser wall” air defense system and do it in less than two years.
This would correct the major weakness of the rocket-based Iron Dome:
No anti-missile umbrella can stop all the missiles from hitting the ground. All it can do is protect little footprints under their dome.
The system was intended only to defend military targets, but was
pressed into service to defend civilians, too. Which is more ammunition
intensive. It just can't reliably kill the rain. And even if it can, it can't do it for long.
But it can buy time while the ammunition lasts. I've speculated about a big ground raid to dig out the launching sites and push deep into Hezbollah's administrative rear area to tear apart the terror group. I think that is the best use for that time.
But the urge to win from the air still seems persistently strong.
Is the laser wall an effort to affordably kill the rain and lessen the need to go on offense on the ground? Or even from the air?
Can lasers kill the rain?
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