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2011-11-25 Syria-Lebanon-Iran

Blogger claims IsraeIi drone explodes at Hezbollah base

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Posted by 2011-11-25 23:53|| || Front Page|| [3 views ] Top

#1 RichardSilverstein is a leftard baboon. When he says "an authoritative Israeli source with considerable military experience", he means one of his jurno friends.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2011-11-25 03:02|| 2011-11-25 03:02|| Front Page Top

#2 Israel should mass produce low cost drones that are effectively GPS-guided buzz bombs. Carrying a 1000lb bomb, an engine, a fuel tank, simple fly-by-wire guidance, and run from a cheap computer brain. Mass produced, they might be as little as $20,000 each. Mostly off the shelf parts.

For the same price as one F15E, they could make over 1,500 of these drones. Every above ground Hezbollah anything could be blown to smithereens.

Posted by Anonymoose 2011-11-25 08:04|| 2011-11-25 08:04|| Front Page Top

#3 'moose, Google "artillery" (200$ per shell)

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2011-11-25 10:23|| 2011-11-25 10:23|| Front Page Top

#4 So they stuck it in a munitions bunker rather than ship it off to Iran for dissection? Oh yeah. I believe it.

Posted by gorb 2011-11-25 11:59|| 2011-11-25 11:59|| Front Page Top

#5 'moose, Google "artillery" (200$ per shell)

What's the loiter time of an artillery shell?

Posted by Pappy 2011-11-25 12:13|| 2011-11-25 12:13|| Front Page Top

#6 Artillery, being ground-based, has unlimited loiter time

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2011-11-25 13:08|| 2011-11-25 13:08|| Front Page Top

#7 You didn't answer the question.

Then again, considering the environment, perhaps you did.

Posted by Pappy 2011-11-25 15:40|| 2011-11-25 15:40|| Front Page Top

#8 Yes I did. Performance is judged by unit not an item of armament.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2011-11-25 15:55|| 2011-11-25 15:55|| Front Page Top

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