Jake:
One shouldn’t presume to know how they swing just because they are willing to fight.
If they can pass muster with all the training told of in the article, they deserve all the support they can get.
However, I am disturbed that Israel has this obsession with Iron. Iron Dome. Iron Swords. ‘Arad’ doesn’t sound too strong either if it dates from Biblical times before they knew about Platinum or Uranium or even the process of making Steel.
Does Netanyahu coat everything with rust like Trump coats everything with Gold spray paint?
Using Iron is just not a good look for exemplars of modernity standing against superstitious savages.
“לעשות טוב יותר” (la’asot tov yoter). (That’s “Do better!” for the Goyim and Un-Orthodox.)