State-owned defense contractor Rafael wants to leverage the system's much-vaunted success in protecting Israeli civilians in this summer's Gaza war, hoping to draw navies as buyers for a new maritime version seen as especially useful in protecting national economic resources at sea like oil and gas platforms. At this week's Euronaval conference near Paris, Rafael unveiled "C-Dome," which endeavors to help combat vessels counteract any threats from the air, including missiles, helicopters and tiny unmanned drone aircraft, which could increasingly become tools of combat and reconnaissance at sea just as they have on land in recent years. Iron Dome was a game-changer in this summer's war, ensuring a decisive technological edge for Israel that all but eliminated civilian casualties from Palestinian rocket fire. At Rafael's display area at the Euronaval exhibit hall in suburban Le Bourget, where high-tech whirligigs like mine-sweepers or virtual-reality training suits for aircraft carrier crews were on show, sat a gray, square metallic box about the size of a large coffee table with a black-tipped missile in one of four launch holes. The closest competitors, he said, would be MBDA's short-range air defense system VL Mica and the Rolling Airframe Missile system of Raytheon. "The most strategic sites for the future right now will be gas platforms and oil platforms," said reserve Israeli Navy Capt.