Underlining that two Iron Dome rockets is often needed to intercept a Palestinian missile and each rocket costs Israel about $100,000, Langotsky said Tel Aviv “needs billions of US dollars” and “will not be able to deploy the Iron Dome unless for a limited period and producing new rockets will take a long time.” He said Israel should not have built the system depending on one technology but on two or more. The highly-publicized Iron Dome has been co-developed by the American company Raytheon and Israeli firm Rafael. It is partly manufactured in the United States. The Iron Dome is claimed to be capable of detecting, assessing and intercepting a variety of shorter-range targets such as rockets, artillery and mortars.