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Candelestine t1_iudthdg wrote

Reply to comment by pepelepew111111 in Ukraine says Iran’s help for Russia should push Israel out of neutral stance by Lahampsink

You make it sound like Israel is being asked to invade Iran. They just wanted to buy some Iron Dome. And the answer of "No, but here, have some radars." is a workable compromise, it's understandable that they wouldn't want to sell their entire cutting edge system.

May as well ask though, if they had said yes that'd be a pretty nice thing to set up around Kyiv, even if it drained their spare cash.

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-wnr- t1_iue010t wrote

There's probably IP that Israel doesn't want to risk falling into Russia, and then by extension Iranian, hands. Instead they sold Ukraine radar systems and bombed a factory in Syrian making Iranian drone components, which seems like a fairly clear indicator of support.

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kilobitch t1_iue4df0 wrote

Israel barely has enough Iron Dome batteries to protect itself. They aren’t selling them en masse on the open market. I think the US might possess 2 batteries. There’s no way Israel would risk their own safety by selling off currently deployed ID batteries to Ukraine or anyone else. And it’s a huge risk that it could be captured by Russia and intel on it then passed on to Iran.

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watson895 t1_iufd9m7 wrote

Israel is pretty much the ideal country when it comes to missile defense. Very small, dense and with a small area where rocket attacks originate. Ukraine would needs orders of magnitude more batteries to get the same results.

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falconzord t1_iuea8t2 wrote

What is they deployed it in Kyiv well beyond Russian reach? It would also let them test it out against Iranian weapons

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kilobitch t1_iueb2ik wrote

ID isn’t designed to intercept the kinds of missiles and drones Russia is using against Kyiv. It’s for short range rockets and artillery.

And again, they don’t have any to spare.

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Common_Ad_6362 t1_iufasdz wrote

It's also likely propaganda and some AA batteries being fired at homemade rockets coming from a third world country.

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