Here’s how Israel’s ‘Iron Dome’ stops rockets — and why Ukraine doesn’t have it

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Israeli missiles are launched from the Iron Dome defense system as a salvo of rockets is fired from the Gaza Strip on Oct. 8. Mahmud Hams/AFP via Getty Images

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Some of the ways in which Hamas initially attacked Israel over the weekend — taking down communication towers with improvised explosives, paragliding over the border and gunning down civilians — subverted one of Israel’s strongest defenses: its Iron Dome.

First deployed in 2011, the Iron Dome is a network of

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