[TnTnTn]

Was wondering why Israel can’t keep an AC130 on station above Gaza and engage immediately with 30mm cannon fire at the first rocket plume during launch...destroy the remainder on the ground and the personnel associated with them...

[Jan_Sobieski]

Puff the Magic Dragon?

[from occupied ga]

Was wondering why Israel can’t keep an AC130 on station above Gaza and engage immediately with 30mm cannon fire at the first rocket plume during launch...destroy the remainder on the ground and the personnel associated with them...

Just a guess but I'd say it probably would be up there more than half an hour before a couple Igla-S missiles would bring it down.

[DugwayDuke]

TnTnTn wrote: “Was wondering why Israel can’t keep an AC130 on station above Gaza and engage immediately with 30mm cannon fire at the first rocket plume during launch...destroy the remainder on the ground and the personnel associated with them...”

Bad public relations. The rocket launch sites are in areas with high concentrations of ‘civilians’. The NYT would have a hissy fit.