{"id":220006,"date":"2026-07-23T16:41:28","date_gmt":"2026-07-23T16:41:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/220006\/"},"modified":"2026-07-23T16:41:28","modified_gmt":"2026-07-23T16:41:28","slug":"a-cheap-solution-or-science-fiction-israels-laser-race-against-irans-drones-and-missiles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/220006\/","title":{"rendered":"A Cheap Solution or Science Fiction? Israel&#8217;s Laser Race Against Iran&#8217;s Drones and Missiles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-testid=\"rich-text\" class=\"x13faqbe x12ds5z6 x1rrzvkg x1txrjqu x115k1yo x126s5kd x1az39ph x1qxhirb xhhm3bp xjplvm8 x1ur7pbh x103ahzr x6ikm8r x10wlt62\">In the last week of this year&#8217;s 40-day war with Iran, an alarming statistic was recorded: One in every four missiles launched at Israel penetrated its air defense. After more than a decade of Israelis getting used to Iron Dome intercepting nearly every threat, the challenges from the air over the past year and a half have only increased \u2013 strategically, technologically and economically. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In the last week of this year&#8217;s 40-day war with Iran, an alarming statistic was recorded: One in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":220007,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[33],"tags":[6312,423,2344,37,63417,37770,11988,37771],"class_list":["post-220006","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-israel","tag-elbit","tag-idf","tag-iron-dome","tag-israel","tag-israel-start-up","tag-israel-technology","tag-rafael","tag-science-technology"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/116970290054472230","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220006","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=220006"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220006\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/220007"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=220006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=220006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=220006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}