Continue to hold down the button or touch-screen to put more force into destroying rocket-oriented blocks.
The "iron dome" system uses sophisticated radar to track, intercept and destroy rockets that are still far from their targets.
Developed over more than three years by Rafael Advanced Defense Systems Ltd., an Israeli company, Iron Dome is meant to intercept and destroy rockets with radar-guided missiles.
Its Joint High Power Solid State Laser, a prototype of which should be ready next summer, is meant to destroy rockets the size of the Katyushas used by insurgents in Afghanistan and Iraq, and by Hizbullah in Lebanon.The most ambitious laser project of all, though, is the Airborne Laser, or ABL, being developed by the American Missile Defence Agency and Boeing, Lockheed Martin and Northrop Grumman.
The Russian proposal, which Mr. Putin made public in a NBC News interview last week on the eve of Mr. Clinton's arrival in Moscow, seems to offer the United States and Europe a joint missile defense program using short- and medium-range missiles to destroy rockets on their way up, instead of intercepting warheads on their way down.
Some 66 Israelis - all but two of them soldiers - have also died in the mission to destroy rockets and tunnels used by the militant Islamist group Hamas.
But he emphasized that the situation remained fragile, and that in the longer run, Mr. Abbas would have to dismantle the military structures of Hamas, Islamic Jihad and Fatah's Al Aksa Martyrs Brigades, confiscate their weapons and destroy rocket factories.
In particular, many point to the 2006 war against Hezbollah in Lebanon, where Israel also tried to destroy rocket launchers and a hostile organization's infrastructure, only to end up killing many civilians and leaving Hezbollah more popular and perhaps ultimately stronger than before the war.
So the idea of destroying a rocket, or two rockets, or however many he's going to destroy, says to me he's got a lot more weapons to destroy".
