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Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Missiles Everywhere
2016-06-17
The next Israeli-Hezbollah conflict will be awful

By WILLY STERN

Long piece about the 130,000 -- that number is right -- missiles held by Hezbollah. As the man says, you don't collect that many missiles if you aren't going to use them. Israel will be blamed, of course.
Posted by:Steve White

#11  Over + besides the Global Secular-loving Global Marxists-Commies not proving they can control the Anti-Secular Global Jihad = Global Hard Boyz!?
Posted by: JosephMendiola   2016-06-17 23:55  

#10  Ditto everywhere ala US = OWG Globalist-created "Co-Superpowers".

US-created, US-styled, + US-par.

"PAR" WID THE "WEAK-N-DECLINING", FORMER POST-COLD WAR/SOVIET "SOLE" SUPERPOWER US, N-O-T INFERIOR TO THE US.

WHY YES, I'M INCLUDING BUT LIMITED TO IRAN, + Russia, China, .... ... @etal. TO COME???

What could possibly go wrong!?
Posted by: JosephMendiola   2016-06-17 23:52  

#9  phil_b is right. The area where these things can be launched from is about 300 square miles. FM-100-2.1 page 136 (https://fas.org/irp/doddir/army/fm100-2-1.pdf) says that a Russian 152mm howitzer battery can suppress a square mile with about 4000 rounds. The Israeli 155mm artillery is probably similar. So, with a million 155 rounds, Israel can cover the whole area. They have 900 of these howitzers that fire 2 rounds a minute sustained, so it would take about 12 hours to clear south Lebanon with just this one of many weapon systems available to the IDF.


If I were there, I would stock at least 14 million rounds to hedge against that contingency; so, I could begin every sunrise and every sunset with a complete barrage for a week, which would cost less than $5 billion. (iron dome has cost about the same amount, and buying both over the course of a decade would be wise.)


Posted by: rammer   2016-06-17 23:44  

#8  Pity Israel doesn't have a railgun. It would be a good way to destroy missiles in underground bunkers. With the PR bonus, it wouldn't cause much surface damage.
Posted by: phil_b   2016-06-17 21:31  

#7  Pretty straightforward to examine 10 years of overheads for excavation, construction, utility upgrades and debris piles to localize the search (targeting).
Posted by: Skidmark   2016-06-17 15:27  

#6  Drink UP!
Posted by: Steve White   2016-06-17 14:36  

#5  How about we lend the Juice some B52s so they can do an arclight?
Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305   2016-06-17 12:20  

#4  Sun Tzu - Do what your enemy least expects you to do.

Except commit suicide. That would be dumb. Apparently 0bean didn't can't infer that.
Posted by: gorb   2016-06-17 11:19  

#3  Sun Tzu - Do what your enemy least expects you to do.
Posted by: phil_b   2016-06-17 07:23  

#2  South Lebanon aint that big. Surely the Isrealis can find enough to set their highly flammable propellant ablaze. Hizd is too stretched in Syria to seriously respond.
Posted by: phil_b   2016-06-17 07:17  

#1  Proper response is to nuke the shit out of launching sites and storage.
Posted by: 3dc   2016-06-17 02:06  

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