"The David's Sling was developed jointly with the US." SS-21s made a fool of US military. Like Russia made a fool of Democrats.

Each shot is also $1 million. $2 million got wasted yesterday and think of Iran's and Lebanon's (read Hezbollah) arsenal of missiles stockpiled. Nearly 500,000 missiles. Israel's overlapping of Patriot 3, Iron Dome, and David's Sling systems could never deal with that many incoming in a day, days, or even weeks! They also have Arrow 3 anti ICBM interceptor missiles. Scary...

So the missiles missed the missing missiles? (Bad pun) 5's

I heard the Patriot missile doesn't have that great a track record, despite the publicity it received in the Gulf War. Don't know much about Iron Dome. I'm in the middle of a book about the Damascus, Arkansas Titan missile site explosion. Scary stuff. Those weapons are a bigger threat to the American public than to the Russians.

Apparently, the Russian new weapons aren't doing well at all. The famed S-300 system was attacked by the Israelis who used aircraft with swarmers to shred the radar. No radar, no launches of missiles. The Sukhoi Su-57 is being shelved as defective. The T-14 Armata tank also disappoints. Even the AK-12 and new AK-15 are inferior to the Nikonov An-94 performance wise! The Sukhois bother me because both the older Su-37 Superflanker and Su-47 Berkut as demonstrators were superior to Western fighters. Why did the VVS pass them up to develop PAK FA into the Su-57? The Russians still have more and better missiles overall (severely damaging one of Israel's first F-35s), even faster hypersonic types... but the older stuff is proving more reliable. Go figure.