because indeed you make it sound like a waste of money if such a system maintained by USA taxpayers can only intercept about 1-5% of the rockets being shot by Iran into Israel.
It is a waste of money when it is used to protect Israel which has no benefits for the American people. Zionists have always been a parasite that attach themselves to a host and suck it dry. Read up on USS Liberty that Israel attacked and blamed Egypt IIRC just because they wanted US to fight their war and pay the price in their stead.
It is even a bigger waste when we consider the fact that US is currently in a proxy war with Russia and they have been pulling air defense out of Ukraine and into occupied Palestine. Russia has been taking advantage of that lack of air defense and has increased its bombardment of Ukraine and is advancing even faster than before.
There is also China which US has basically declared another proxy war on and they need all these ammunition for that conflict which is the only concern US regime has had over the past decade (to counter China's massive and rapid rise).
If you read some of the American military websites, they have been warning against it ever since Biden went to war with Yemen and Yemen started bombing US navy which forced USN to empty their defensive missile stash.
Another reason why it is a waste of money is because of its cost. Some of these missiles cost for up to $40 million and they are not producing enough of them. This is due to the corruption that exists in the US military industry which I refer to as "arms dealers" that they can only produce things that are EXTREMELY expensive and usually not as useful as they are advertised (eg. F-35).
Are there some reputable sources in which I could find information on the accuracy of the iron dome and other systems which are funded by the United States to protect the State of Israel?
Though, I am afraid I would not be able to find the actual accuracy of the Iron Dome in sources directly linked to the pentagon or the government of Israel, as they are likely to exaggerate the accuracy and level of defense the Iron Dome offers to them.
Still, it is a topic which causes much curiosity and I would like to learn more about it.
All sources are biased, you just have to do your own research to find out how biased they are and which side they lean into.
Here is what I can tell you based on what I've studied over the past 6 years so that you can keep in mind when you read any "expert" opinion on this matter; and I am biased too
When talking about accuracy or success rate of air defense, you have to first clarify the "against what" and the "how many" factors, because that's what makes the difference.
For example is the air defense (eg. Iron Dome) defending against small rockets or shells or is it (eg. Patriot) defending against missiles. Then what type of rockets, missiles, shells, etc.
Take Iranian missiles for example. Intercepting a "dumb" ballistic missile like Ghadr is easier than intercepting a more advanced ballistic missile like Fateh and it is going to be impossible for something like Kheybar Shekan and only in dreams to intercept something like Fattah.
The first one I call "dumb" because it is 30+ year old technology and I believe it uses a simple ballistic trajectory (think of it as the pig thingy you throw in angry birds with an arc). It makes predicting its location in the sky easier and also because it doesn't have that high a speed (it is still fast) it makes it easi
er to intercept compared to others.
The second is more advanced because it is faster (I believe it dives at hypersonic speed) making it harder to intercept.
The third one is just super advanced (still 20+ year old technology). It has hypersonic speed and it is also highly maneuverable making it impossible to intercept (anti-ballistic-missile missiles have slow speed that is IIRC up to Mach 4, this BM can dive at Mach 10+).
There are other types as well like Fattah that is even more advanced with faster speed and hypersonic glide or Khorramshahr which you can think of latest variants as the Russian Oreshnik thing.
So when Iron Dome is defending against small and slow moving rockets the Gaza Resistance launches at the Zionist regime, it can intercept most of them with a success rate that can go as high as 80%-90%. But when the Resistance launches its more "advanced" rockets that use a different trajectory (it's all in the angel) the intercept rate drops down to something like 50%.
Similarly when Iran launches Ghadr, Rezvan and other "dumb" BMs, intercepting them is easier so the success rate of ABMs like Arrow, Patriot or THAAD is like 20%-40% or maybe even higher if they're lucky. But since these are dirt cheap Iran launches them at large to empty the enemy defensive missile stash
But when Iran launches something like Fateh family the intercept of all those ABMs fall down to 5% and only if they are lucky (it is worth mentioning on Jan 2020 Iran used 13 of these to hit US airbase in Iraq and they couldn't intercept any of them; in other words I'm being generous when I say 5%).
And finally if Iran launches something like Fattah or Khorramshahr or Fattah 2 or 50 other types, the success rate would be absolutely zero since there is no technology invented to intercept any of these things.
That was type, the other factor is number.
Air defense needs to detect the projectile, then lock onto it and launch its own intercepting missile. Then it has to guide it by correcting its course until it hits the incoming target. Obviously they can only engage with a certain number of targets which varies depending on the system.
If there are more incoming projectiles than the system can handle, its success rate falls down.
For example if we assume Iron Dome can intercept 80% of Rajum rockets if there are 10 of them, it can only intercept 50% of them if there are 20 rockets and that falls down to 5% of there are 100 rockets. [Numbers are just examples to clarify the point, they are not realistic] this is why The Resistance usually launches large number of rockets at the enemy.
To put simply they get "overwhelmed" when there are too many targets to intercept.
