One Iron Dome battery costs $50 million

. During April-May of this year, Hamas, the Palestinian group fired 4,500 rockets at Israel, prompting Israeli authorities to briefly close Tel Aviv airport. The Iron Dome producers, Rafael Advance Defense Systems together with Israel Aerospace Industries, face strict export controls. A cheaper alternative for Mariupol would be to build a new airport. To serve Ukraine’s largest city on the Azov, with 500,000 inhabitants, city officials are studying two sites, further west from the city, Mayor Vadim Boychenko told the city news portal.