Israeli Air Force Quadruples Firepower: 'Second Only to That of the United States'....

Reaganite Republican/Washington Free Beacon ^ | June 1, 2014 1:56 pm | Abraham Rabinovich, Washington Free Beacon

[Reaganite Republican]

Faced by threats from Iran and her proxies, the Israelis can't even count on the standard logic of deterrence, which is built upon the assumption of self-preservation. That might work if your enemy is North Korea -who's elite are enjoying life/perks- but Israel's enemies are mostly genocidal kooks who can't wait to die for the cause, from Tehran all the way down to the ground in southern Lebanon/Gaza...

But what they can do is ensure they possess the capability to smash any foolishness from Hezbollah and/or Hamas promptly, since these groups lack the infrastructure for any sort of mass attack on the world's sole Jewish state. 

So while Hezbollah may have as many as '100,000 rockets' from Iran, they can only launch a limited # of them per day, while Israel could rain-down thousands of missiles and smart bombs on southern Lebanon, setting back Hezbollah capabilities 'by decades' while they struggle to perhaps fire off a few rounds towards Israeli population centers.

To enable this strategy, Israel is currently in the midst of a radical air-power expansion that has brought a 4x increase in her striking power over the span of just two years:

The firepower of the Israel Air Force (IAF) will be four times greater by year’s end than it was two years ago, according to its commander, Maj. Gen. Amir Eshel, enabling Israel to bring another round of fighting with Hezbollah to a swift end.

“We can destroy [Hezbollah’s] military capabilities and the infrastructure that supports its activities on a scale that would take decades to rebuild,” he told a conference on national security, “an unimaginable scale”. ...

Eshel acknowledged that Hezbollah now has precision rocketry capable of hitting Israel’s northernmost air force base and to interfere with operations. However, he said, it would not diminish the IAF’s offensive capabilities, which can be projected from other bases as well. ... 

The use of precision munitions and upgraded intelligence, based in part on satellites, accounts in good part for the increase in the IAF’s effective firepower... the air force could carry out thousands of accurate strikes in a single day.

By the end of this year, the air force will be able accomplish in 24 hours what it took three days to accomplish in the war with Hezbollah eight years ago...

And if the Lebanese national government -and Army- get involved? It's now pretty much controlled by Hezbollah anyway, so it's not hard to envision the entire country dragged into a war with Israel. And which side would Obama take? Good question!

Yet this would probably be a grave error for the Lebanese, as already back in 2010 Israel had fully prepared a plan for the IDF to wipe the entire Lebanese military off face of the Earth in just four hours... one can only assume they're still ready to do that -and more- if circumstances demand it.

[ConservativeMan55]

bttt

[Reaganite Republican]

***PING***

[Mich Patriot]

Smart move since they are pretty much alone in the world now. Obama loves him some camel riding, goat humping muslim savages.

[Reaganite Republican]

Thats what I was thinking too

[Mich Patriot]

BTW - the graphics archive at RR is good for some laughs. Thanks!

[montag813]

What good is it if they let Iran get nukes?

[latina4dubya]

The firepower of the Israel Air Force (IAF) will be four times greater by year’s end than it was two years ago, according to its commander, Maj. Gen. Amir Eshel, enabling Israel to bring another round of fighting with Hezbollah to a swift end.

good for them... i only wish they would use it...

[sten]

good for them

seems only americans think 0bama is on our side

[Reaganite Republican]

Thank you kindly

[Tallguy]

With all due respect to the Israeli general, does he really think that he’s going to be given the order for a sustained bombing campaign over southern Lebanon with few targeting restrictions so that he can leverage all that firepower? Yeah, that’s what I thought...

[Lazamataz]

When Israel realized that they can count on America to side with the radical Islamists, they went it alone.

Doing well, too.