Posted on 11/19/2012 5:03:52 PM PST by raptor22
they are being forced to , it is Iran’s strategy
The HamAss/Iranian rockets can't be controlled - they're unguided.
"The "Fajr" (Dawn) series are mobile-launched, unguided, solid-fuel artillery rockets "
Its Debka, FWIW..
http://www.debka.com/article/22541/Iranian-arms-ship-carries-fresh-improved-Fajar-supplies-for-Gaza
Excellent idea. Hamas is firing rockets with what, up to a 40 mile range right now? Fine, I'd push 50 miles into the Sinai. Everything between the border and the edge of the buffer zone would be under strict military/marshal law.
Real close to a working system now. Google "raytheon laser ciws"... As I under stand it, they've ganged together COTS (welding?) lasers and mated them to the radar and targeting system of the CIWS. I thought I had read/heard somewhere they had shot down "other stuff" besides the drone, but I can't find it now.
I wonder why radar guided AAA can’t be employed as as first line of defense against these inexpensive dumb rockets? If the flak can’t get it, then go to the more expensive iron dome.
Look into THEL, M-THEL, the Nautilus laser project and the airborne Anti-Ballistic Missile Laser or ABL. They have figured them out and they do work.
Great answer with enough spin to sound reasonable. Of course the text stated it was the “world’s” only system. Regardless your answer was enough to get you a job in politics...just kidding. Seriously, thanks for replying.
Hillary is on her way to meddle and make the situation far worse.
Good Lord, they should find some way to get her banned from entering the country.
If I had a wish it would be to be a member of Israels armament development team, anything to become totally independent, especially since Obama is absolutely against Israel.
Its that Muslim thing of his.
This weapon seems more like long range (75-mile max) artillery than it is like a medium-range (2-500 mile) missile. That is, the gizmo stays within the atmosphere the whole time. As a result, the anti-missile tracking software is different than the old Patriot.
When the wildly imprecise SCUDS were re-entering the atmosphere they broke up into hundreds of pieces ... so the Patriots were more of a psychological boost to the Israeli civvie population, just as the inaccurate SCUDS were ... unless one happened to kill you, or someone you knew ... a psychological terror weapon.
In a way, these FAJR 5s are more militarily effective than SCUDS and Iron Dome therefore has to be more militarily effective against them.
Indeed. It seems that the USA has turned its back on the LORD.
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