It is estimated that a Katyusha rocket costs around $300. In contrast, the cost of a single antimissile rocket fired from the Iron Dome system has been estimated to cost as much as $100,000. Because the Iron Dome would often need to fire two missiles to knock the Katyushas out of the sky, each intercept of a rocket from Gaza could cost up to $200,000, or around six hundred times the cost of the rocket they were intercepting. The Israeli public within firing distance from Gaza may have been able to feel safer with the inception of the Iron Dome, but the math did not work in Israel’s favor.
