| During the Second Lebanon War in 2006, a number of Katyusha rockets struck but did not hit the refineries | In late 2012 Israel said that it hoped to increase the range of Iron Dome's interceptions, from a maximum of 70 kilometres 43 mi to 250 kilometres 160 mi and make it more versatile so that it could intercept rockets coming from two directions simultaneously |
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| During the 2006 , approximately 4,000 Hezbollah-fired rockets the great majority of which were short-range landed in northern Israel, including on , the country's | Such financial assistance could expedite the completion of the defensive system, which has long been delayed by budgetary shortfalls |
Iron Dome was declared operational and initially deployed on 27 March 2011 near.
22| This section would also require the Director, Missile Defense Agency to establish within MDA a program office for cooperative missile defense efforts on the Iron Dome system to ensure long-term cooperation on this program | Fox, Stuart 30 March 2011 |
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| " "The Marksmen" Don an Iron Dome" | Capaccio, Tony 27 May 2014 |
Iron Dome is part of a multi-tiered missile defense system that Israel was continuing to develop in 2016 to protect the country from threats ranging from to and which includes , , , and.
| In the 2006 war with Hezbollah, prior to Iron Dome's development, during 34 days of fighting, 4,000 rockets landed and 53 Israelis were killed | Budget shortfalls meant that Israel would be forced to weigh spending on missile defenses against other expenditures |
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| Israel had floated the idea of its own short-range antimissile system, but U | "Since the system continues to grow and improve, it is important to test potential sites," said a commander from the Air Defense Formation |