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| Israel Deploys Arrow and Patriot |
| 2006-07-29 |
| Saturday afternoon, HizballahÂ’s Hassan Nasrallah threatened to send more rockets into central Israeli cities after Afula was hit Friday night. Playing it safe, Israel also adjusted the orbits of its military satellites to allow them to track any Hizballah missiles at the moment they are launched from Lebanon. Military experts believe that the Israeli air force, supported by these hi tech systems, will be able to intercept an Iran-made Zilzal-2 long-range missile, whose 250-km range puts Tel Aviv within reach, before it enters Israeli air space. DEBKAfileÂ’s military experts add: If one of those missiles is intercepted only after it shoots across Israeli skies, Hizballah will count it a success, because of the potential damage falling debris from the intruding missile and its interceptor can cause on the ground below. This lesson was learned in the 1991 Gulf War, when Patriot anti-missile interceptions caught up too late with Saddam HusseinÂ’s Scud missile as they homed into Israel towns. Our sources add that from Saturday, July 29, the tempo of the American munitions airlift to Israel, begun last Wednesday, as DEBKAfile revealed exclusively, has speeded up. During Saturday, giant US Air Force C-114 cargo transports en route for Israel touched down in Scotland for refueling every few hours. |
| Posted by:Anonymoose |
| #8 Isn't #6 the retired C-141 Starlifter? |
| Posted by: GK 2006-07-29 22:54 |
| #7 DEBKA didn't just transpose the numbers; they got the designation wrong. As someone pointed out the other day the C-141s went to Starlifter heaven at Davis-Monthan. The last C-141 went to the National Museum of the United States Air Force at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio on May 9, 2006. I agree with #4. Debka must have meant the C-17 Globemaster III. |
| Posted by: GK 2006-07-29 22:50 |
| #6 |
| Posted by: Manolo 2006-07-29 22:32 |
| #5 That was Debka, not Moose, and I think they meant C-141. Not the first time they've made that error. |
| Posted by: Nimble Spemble 2006-07-29 21:49 |
| #4 Boxcar was a C-19. I think Moose meant C-17. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2006-07-29 21:25 |
| #3 The C-114. Wasn't that the Flying Boxcar? |
| Posted by: Nimble Spemble 2006-07-29 21:22 |
| #2 More reasons why the 20-mile "buffer zone" is insuffic or obsolete before it is even established - 9-11 > THE WOT > THE "STATUS QUO" IS NO LONGER ACCEPTABLE/TOLERABLE TO THE ENEMIES OF AMERICA = WESTERN DEMOCRACIES-CAPITALISM. E.g the Spetzies want the USA-West out from Spain to Iraq = "the enitire/whole world" in Camel-kaze speak. Israel = USA > any per se military defeat or unilateral withdrawal unto national isolationism = enemy armies will show up in the back yards and mainstreets of AnyTown, AnyCity, AnyPlace, ...............Any-Kibbutz in CONUS + the Western world. THE WOT IS A DE FACTO NATIONAL AND WORLD-GLOBAL WAR TO THE DEATH, THE DEATH OF ONE SIDE + -ISM(S) VS ANY AND ALL OTHERS - ARMISTICE ONLY MEANS THE ENEMY IS GONNA KILL YOU AND YOURS, ETAL. SLOWLY THAN USUAL = WILL WAR AND ATTACK AGAIN AND AGAIN ONCE STRENGTH IS REGAINED. WIll say again the irony for mostly Muslim Lebanon and Syria is that any destruction of Israel does not mean their own nations and Moderate-Sunni = non-Shia Islam is safe from Radical Iran. THEIR ALLIES OR FELLOW MUSLIMS ARE NOT THEIR FRIENDS. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2006-07-29 21:07 |
| #1 Israel also adjusted the orbits of its military satellites to allow them to track any Hizballah missiles at the moment they are launched from Lebanon...... or Iran |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2006-07-29 20:42 |