[GMMAC]

PING!

[txroadhawg]

Maybe Madeline Halfwit can negotiate a ceasefire that gives Iran a guidance system,

[crowman]

Debka-file speculates on new hezyballah persian rockets hitting Dimona in the Negev. Deeply burried, the damage would be little but the image great for bizness-jihad-style.

[sgtbono2002]

Hizballah snuck in 12,000 rockets while the UN peacekeepers sat in their towers and picked their noses and played with themselves, While the Lebanese Army stood by and watched, and in violation of UN security measures.
and now Kofi wants Israel to accept another peace keeping force so that they too can sit on their asses and pickle their noses while Hezballah re-arms.

[R.W.Ratikal]

Katusha Rockets were developed by Russia in World War II as a cheap way to lay down massive suppressive fire against advancing German Panzer divisions.

They have no ability to be aimed. It is used by Muslims as a terror weapon. If enough are dropped on civilians some casualties will occur. The Katusha has no military value and is not effective against attacking armour and modern equipped troops unless by a lucky hit.

Katusha rockets are said to be made in Iran. That is highly doubtful. Iran is a non-industrial nation that is barely beyond basket-weaving. Iran's nuclear build up is probably being developed by European countries. Even its oil resources must be recovered from the ground by outside workers.

The rockets probably come via Iran but ready-made off the shelf from Red China or Russia.

[fso301]

Doesn't look like any Katyusha I'm familiar with.

[Robert A Cook PE]

(1) So, what is the latest count of how many have been shot?

I've heard 1300, but that was never repeated. And, I think that total was for rocket launched before the Israelis tried to clean out Lebanon. Don't know how many more were launched since then.

(The MSM, of course, will never say...)

(2) The average payload is 250 lbs right ? (Or 250 kg?)

If so, given how small the German payloads were in early WWII, and the relatively few bombers available by Sept (less than 500) it would appear the the Israeli attacks compare to the amount dropped in the Blitz on London from Sept to Nov 1940.

Not the whole country, but thinking just about those dropped on London. Any thoughts?

[justa-hairyape]

In the 15 years Israel held the security zone in south Lebanon, 256 soldiers died in combat; another 840 were injured.

So 1.4 soldiers per month was too steep a price for Israel to pay to prevent these rockets from being fired in the first place ? The U.S. is losing that many per day keeping the 'peace' in Iraq.