Now you know.
Brought to you by the U.S. taxpayer!
Money well spent??
Israel is basically our battlefield laboratory. The 1973 war was basically won by US Vietnam veteran pilots.
Defense? Islam is never-ending offense. It is very offensive.
Purple ?
unique footage showing an exoatmospheric interception amid the Iranian ballistic missile attack
https://rumble.com/v4pbvj2-very-unique-footage-showing-an-exoatmospheric-interception-amid-the-iranian.html
The US C-RAM (Counter Rockets, Artillery and Mortars) Program was the basis for Iron Dome development.
It’s a long distance footrace. It is a team event with waves of designated “rabbits” whose only purpose is to exhaust the competitors so the “winner” can roll to victory.
“waves” - launches from multiple origins
“Rabbits” - cheap drones
“rabbits” - reserve team > unmarried, military age males dispersed throughtout the country waiting for the signal to be a rabbit.
“exhaust” - deplete the inventory of sophisticated defensive munitions
“footrace” - wars everywhere on planet earth
“winner” - fill-in-the-blank
Iron Dome got perfected because hamas continually launched rockets from Gaza - for years. How long would the US tolerate something like that if, say, Canada decided to just start launching missiles into our country? Would we “show restraint?” Would our response be “proportional?”
I wonder if one could take control of a drone and quide it to the al-Aqsa Mosque?
sounds a lot like UK’s Chain Home plus Fighter Command system in WWII ...
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Thank you President Reagan.
They lied and said “Star Wars” didn’t work. The concept always worked, and technologically, the system itself worked after about 1991.
https://www.cfr.org/article/us-aid-israel-four-charts
QME has been a conceptual backbone of U.S. military aid to Israel for decades, and it was formally enshrined in U.S. law in 2008 [PDF]. It requires the U.S. government to maintain Israel’s ability “to defeat any credible conventional military threat from any individual state or possible coalition of states or from non-state actors, while sustaining minimal damage and casualties.” QME is based on NATO military planning vis-a-vis a potential conflict with the Soviet Union and Warsaw Pact countries during the Cold War.
Under the 2008 law, the United States must ensure that any weapons it provides to other countries in the Middle East do not compromise Israel’s QME. In several cases, this has required the United States to provide Israel with offsetting weaponry as part of larger regional arms sales. QME has also ensured that Israel is the first in the region to receive access to the most sophisticated U.S. military weapons and platforms, such as the F-35 stealth fighter, of which Israel has fifty.
Link to PUBLIC LAW 110–429—OCT. 15, 2008 see *SECTION II* :
https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/PLAW-110publ429/pdf/PLAW-110publ429.pdf