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2014-05-09 Israel-Palestine-Jordan

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Posted by trailing wife 2014-05-09 00:00|| || Front Page|| [5 views ] Top

#1 Perfect English, yet some word choice leads to at least a bit of vagueness.
If an F16 can drop ten bombs on ten targets, it must carry ten bombs. Allowing for the fact that the range is probably short and a half a load of fuel is all that is necessary--for the sake of discussion--how big are the bombs likely to be if the aircraft can get off the ground?
What kind of targets can be destroyed by such bombs?
IOW, the target choice has to be for smaller or more vulnerable targets, which means the big ones are addressed by other means. Possibly an F16 with, say, four bombs. And the big targets and the little targets would be mixed up.
Figuring out and programming for such targets in a fluid situation is going to be a hell of a job.

Posted by Richard Aubrey 2014-05-09 08:50|| 2014-05-09 08:50|| Front Page Top

#2 Israel has relied too heavily on its air force before.

Posted by Iblis 2014-05-09 10:49|| 2014-05-09 10:49|| Front Page Top

#3 But its a great optimization problem of precision statistical targeting, maximum gain vs risk game theory and the traveling salesman's shortest path problem, Rich. No more 'one load, one target' solutions.
I think I'd go with 10 canisters of smart cluster bombs rather than 'heavy iron'.

Posted by Skidmark 2014-05-09 12:12|| 2014-05-09 12:12|| Front Page Top

#4 Rockeye, just use Rockeye. Screw accuracy, take out the baby milk factory and the rocket launcher at the same time; won't be able to re-use either one ( for cover or assault)

Posted by USN, Ret. 2014-05-09 12:23|| 2014-05-09 12:23|| Front Page Top

#5 Small Diameter Bomb II

Posted by Squinty 2014-05-09 14:08|| 2014-05-09 14:08|| Front Page Top

#6 Anything but bad news.

Posted by Uncle Phester 2014-05-09 19:56|| 2014-05-09 19:56|| Front Page Top

#7 Yuuup.

OTOH I suspect ISRAEL = US EAST ASIA ALLIES = now are more likely than not to be on the receiving end of High-Intensity, Unilateral or Preemptive Conventional andor Limited Nuclear First-Strikes.

IN this age of OWG Globalism, Global Fed Unions, + Multiple "par" Co-Superpowers, ANY + ALL "MAJOR" WARS ARE NOW DESIRED TO BE "MINOR" WARS = LIMITED MILACTIONS.

Conventional, but ideally NOT worse or beyond the level of LIMITED TACNUKE OR STRATEGIC NUKE EXCHANGE.

Once again, people, wid feeling, .... ...

* OWG GLOBALISM = CAN BE LABELED ORASCRIBED AS HOW MUCH OR HOW FAR CAN THE "SOLE" SUPERPOWER US + CONTEMPORARY "GREAT POWERS" [E.G. Nuclear Club] SAFELY UNILATERALLY GIVE UP, PULL BACK, OR OTHERWISE GEOPOL RETREAT, ETC, ACROSS THE WORLD WIDOUT BEING EXISTENTIALLY THREATENED OR DESTROYED???

AND WHILE STILL BEING CONSIDERED BY THE WORLD COMMUNITY AS A "SUPERPOWER" = "GREAT POWER"???

The inverse is also true - HOW MUCH OR HOW FAR CAN GEOPOL WANNABES, NEW POWERS ANDOR OLD RESURGENT POWERS, EXPAND-N-CONTROL, ETC. THEIR REACH ACROSS THE WORLD.

Lest we fergit, the Radical Jihadis = MilTerrs at the middle + lower tiers come from mostly or wholly poor, uneducated, jobless + prolly abusive backgrounds - THEY DON'T CARE ABOUT THE PCORRECT, UNIVERSITY OR INTELLECTUALIST PREMISES OR CONCEPTS BEHIND OWG-NWO + GLOBALISM, ETC. ALL THEY CARE ABOUT IS WHETHER YOUR ARMY CAN STOP THEIR ARMY FROM TAKING AWAY EVERYTHING YOU HOLD DEAR OR EVEN JUST TO STOP FROM ENSLAVING OR KILLING YOU. Everthing else in between is just so much Fluff-n-Bluff.

"KILL OR BE KILLED" = "CONVERT OR DIE"!

ALLAN/GOD SAYS "WAR IS KILLING, + KILLING IS FUN"!

E.G. BOKO HARAM.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2014-05-09 23:00|| 2014-05-09 23:00|| Front Page Top

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