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2009-07-16 Israel-Palestine-Jordan

Anti-rocket defense system Iron Dome aces first live try

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Posted by Steve White 2009-07-16 00:00|| || Front Page|| [6 views ] Top

#1 At least it can by time until the real solution can be implemented.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2009-07-16 05:37|| 2009-07-16 05:37|| Front Page Top

#2 If you can calculate the trajectory quickly enough to shoot a short range missile out of the sky then you can certainly calculate its launch point just as quickly, and program a second rocket to take out the launch site within a couple of minutes of launch. Of course, that would blow up all the kiddies in the school yard watching the launch.

Posted by Glenmore 2009-07-16 07:45|| 2009-07-16 07:45|| Front Page Top

#3 By Reuters
Palestinian and Lebanese guerrillas

Guerrillas? Is that what they are called now?

A surge in the salvoes prompted an Israeli offensive last December which killed more than 1,400 Palestinians, many of them civilians.

Of course to idiots like this reporter - all terrorists are civilians...

Posted by CrazyFool 2009-07-16 08:34|| 2009-07-16 08:34|| Front Page Top

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