Seventy residents of Sderot, a town of 20,000 people less than a mile from the Gaza Strip, sued Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and Defense Minister Ehud Barak Wednesday, demanding immediate deployment of the mothballed Nautilus missile-defense system.
The Nautilus system was jointly developed at a cost of $300 million by the U.S. and Israeli militaries to shoot down medium-range Katyusha rockets launched over the Lebanese border by Hezbollah.
But it was deemed too expensive and too inaccurate, and both countries abandoned it in 2005.
Nautilus tests "shot down Katyushas, Qassams, and bombs with 100 percent success," countered Israeli lawyer Nitsana Darshan-Leitner in her lawsuit. "Israel could bring the system to Sderot and use it to protect the people there from Qassam rockets."
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,338009,00.html
The Israeli military is in fact working on a different system called "Iron Dome," which essentially shoots down missiles with large bullets.
Though it will be able to shoot down the medium-range missiles Hamas began firing against the large coastal city of Ashkelon last month, it will be useless against the cheap, quick, highly inefficient Qassams.
...300 million USD wasted?
....how large would the bullets have to be ? ( supplied only in the USA ? )
...you know your state of the art defence is no good when...when your enemies offensive weapons are cheap, quick, highly inefficient....
Give us our anti-missile laser cannon
