Iron Beam

Quality:

Iron Beam - Israeli air defense system employing high-energy laser beam that is designed to destroy short-range rockets, artillery, and mortars. Article “Iron Beam” in Dutch Wikipedia has 37.4 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 20 references and 4 sections.

This article has the best quality in English Wikipedia. Also, this article is the most popular in that (Dutch) language version.

Since the creation of article “Iron Beam”, its content was written by 1 registered users of Dutch Wikipedia and edited by 267 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 3 times in Dutch Wikipedia and cited 249 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Dutch): #1339 in March 2025
• Global: #1566 in October 2023

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Dutch): #4056 in June 2025
• Global: #3843 in October 2023

There are 22 language versions for this article in the WikiRank database (of the considered 55 Wikipedia language editions).

The quality and popularity assessment was based on Wikipédia dumps from July 1, 2025 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	English (en) Iron Beam		60.9398
2	Hebrew (he) מגן אור		57.6284
3	Turkish (tr) Demir ışın		52.7961
4	Dutch (nl) Iron Beam		37.4395
5	Spanish (es) Rayo de Hierro		36.5918
6	Croatian (hr) Iron Beam		35.4072
7	Polish (pl) Żelazny Promień		34.0562
8	German (de) Iron Beam		32.4921
9	Chinese (zh) 铁束激光导弹防御系统		30.7913
10	Tamil (ta) அயன் பீம்		29.6989

The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Iron Beam		1 219 959
2	Hebrew (he) מגן אור		318 445
3	Russian (ru) Железный луч		158 573
4	German (de) Iron Beam		74 489
5	Japanese (ja) アイアンビーム		31 899
6	Chinese (zh) 铁束激光导弹防御系统		29 373
7	French (fr) Iron Beam		27 770
8	Spanish (es) Rayo de Hierro		26 236
9	Turkish (tr) Demir ışın		15 843
10	Arabic (ar) الشعاع الحديدي		9 512

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Iron Beam		37 380
2	Hebrew (he) מגן אור		8 504
3	German (de) Iron Beam		6 744
4	Russian (ru) Железный луч		4 870
5	Dutch (nl) Iron Beam		2 467
6	Turkish (tr) Demir ışın		2 342
7	Japanese (ja) アイアンビーム		2 254
8	French (fr) Iron Beam		1 823
9	Spanish (es) Rayo de Hierro		1 484
10	Chinese (zh) 铁束激光导弹防御系统		1 071

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Iron Beam		89
2	Hebrew (he) מגן אור		77
3	Russian (ru) Железный луч		20
4	German (de) Iron Beam		16
5	French (fr) Iron Beam		13
6	Ukrainian (uk) Маґен ор		8
7	Turkish (tr) Demir ışın		6
8	Croatian (hr) Iron Beam		5
9	Japanese (ja) アイアンビーム		4
10	Polish (pl) Żelazny Promień		4

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Hebrew (he) מגן אור		9
2	English (en) Iron Beam		4
3	Russian (ru) Железный луч		2
4	Catalan (ca) Llamp de ferro		1
5	Arabic (ar) الشعاع الحديدي		0
6	Azerbaijani (az) Dəmir şüa		0
7	German (de) Iron Beam		0
8	Spanish (es) Rayo de Hierro		0
9	Persian (fa) پرتو آهنین		0
10	Finnish (fi) Rautasäde		0

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

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