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| Iron Dome Scores a Hit |
| 2011-04-07 |
| Iron Dome's success Thursday marks the first time in history a short-range rocket was ever intercepted. According to reports from the area, the interception could be seen in Israeli towns near northern Gaza. The second Iron Dome battery was positioned in the area of Ashkelon over the weekend, in addition to a battery already placed north of Be'er Sheva. Is that really cost-effective? I thought the Grads were not really doing much damace. Except to the psyche. It's protecting lives and letting the people in the area know that the government will protect them. Worth every penny and more. |
| Posted by:Bobby |
| #12 AP - If the IDF sees an incoming rocket every SIX SECONDS, even Saudi Arabia needs to be worried. At least that's the message I'd leave if I were in the Israeli diplomatic corps. |
| Posted by: Halliburton - Mysterious Conspiracy Division 2011-04-07 21:15 |
| #11 Hizb'Allah is reported to have 30,000 to 40,000 rockets in southern Lebanon. If they start shooting them, then the Israeli response is going to have to cover a lot of real estate, quickly. There are not too many options for that. Just thinking, 1 rocket fired per minute is 1440 per day. For 30K rockets, it will take 21 days to shoot them all. At 2 rockets a minute, it will take 10 days. At 10 rockets per minute, it will take 2 days. That can do a tremendous amount of damage. I am just a sideliner, but I would put Damascus on notice that Pencil-neck and his government would cease to exist if Hizb'Allah starts up anything. |
| Posted by: Alaska Paul 2011-04-07 20:32 |
| #10 It's not a peace process, its a War process. |
| Posted by: newc 2011-04-07 20:24 |
| #9 Grads don't hurt - unless they happen to fall on you. Counter-battery fire is ineffective against what is essentially a big-ass bottle rocket that can be fired with a cinder block and an egg timer. The miscreants are long gone when it goes off. Iron Dome is a defense for the coming war. Thanks to their Iranian benefactors and would-be rocket scientists like Uncle Sissy, the Paleos have improved missiles with longer range, better accuracy and bigger payloads. The old rockets were a dangerous nuisance. The new ones are a threat that cannot be ignored. If you want peace, prepare for war. |
| Posted by: SteveS 2011-04-07 19:27 |
| #8 You don't want to hear my rant about the so-called peace flotilla in May, 2011. I would get sink-trapped for certain! |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2011-04-07 19:24 |
| #7 Good Grief! How do they put up with this? There are Israelis who want to make peace? |
| Posted by: Bobby 2011-04-07 18:48 |
| #6 BP, no, they will probably complain that the Jooos are playing fair and dying like the Palestinians want them to. |
| Posted by: Rambler in Virginia 2011-04-07 17:21 |
| #5 Interesting how the increasingly powerless Paleostinian terrorist will react to this. My own view is that they will vent their frustration on their own surrounding population. |
| Posted by: Bright Pebbles 2011-04-07 17:19 |
| #4 Is that really cost-effective? I thought the Grads were not really doing much damace. Except to the psyche. There was a big fund drive by Magen David Adom a few years ago, to build an underground bunker playground/senior citizen center in Sderot, one of the Israeli towns nearest Gaza. That's how bad it's been, Bobby. Google "image missile damage Sderot", and draw your own conclusions. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2011-04-07 16:46 |
| #3 Since they just deployed the system and haven't really had a chance to use it yet in the real world, the system may have been set to shoot at whatever came up just to prove that the system could even work. If so, they'll probably tighten things up as time goes on, but for now the public knows that the system has proven the capacity exists, whether or not it is actually working. If that missile were headed towards a populated area and it wasn't shot down because the part of the system that makes the go/no-go decision wasn't working right, I'm sure there'd be some explaining to do. |
| Posted by: gorb 2011-04-07 15:38 |
| #2 Part of the system is a go/no go whether the rocket will hit occupied/built up areas. That means the Grad was headed for an occupied area before it was taken out. This was becoming a political necessity that those rockets be stopped. |
| Posted by: tipover 2011-04-07 15:25 |
| #1 Rapid response: back-track the launch point and fire for effect. |
| Posted by: mojo 2011-04-07 15:06 |