Image of F-16 carrying Sparrow:
Image of F-16 carrying the AMRAAM:
The even bigger missile on this aircraft is a HARM which is even larger than either Sparrow/AMRAAM.
Posted on 03/21/2002 12:10:15 PM PST by vannrox
WASHINGTON [MENL] -- The United States appears to have shelved opposition to emergency deployment of the Arrow missile defense system developed jointly with Israel. U.S. officials said the Defense Department and its Missile Defense Agency envision deployment of the Arrow-2 interceptor in case the U.S. military is left without a defense against medium-range missiles. A U.S. program, the Theater High Altitude Area Defense system, has been plagued by delays. The Arrow deployment could take place in wake of an agreement by Jerusalem and Washington for the production of the interceptors in the United States. Officials said the Pentagon has not ruled out the purchase of such missiles. In a Senate subcommittee on strategic forces hearing last week, Missile Defense Agency director Lt. Gen. Ronald Kadish said the Arrow could serve to augment the U.S. PAC-3 missile defense system. The PAC-3 is meant to provide area defense against ballistic missiles in their last stage of flight.
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How about we trade F16's for them. Buck for buck. No more subsidys, just good partnership. Both our industries could use the boost. Of course we need a lot more missiles than Israel needs F16's. We could (gasp) buy them.
While we are at it we should buy the x/y axis thrust vector nozzles for the F16's the Israeli's invented too, and the xxxxxxxx. (/censoring)
Image of F-16 carrying Sparrow:
Image of F-16 carrying the AMRAAM:
The even bigger missile on this aircraft is a HARM which is even larger than either Sparrow/AMRAAM.
-http://www.cdiss.org/bak_1.htm--
-http://www.arabia.com/news/article/english/0,1690,28781,00.html--
-http://www.stratfor.com/SERVICES/GIU/062297.asp--
-http://www.space.com/news/israel_missile_991101_wg.html--
-http://www.freeman.org/m_online/jul97/ap.htm--
-http://www.washingtoninstitute.org/pubs/pp28exec.htm--
And more generally-- Links for Missile Defense- National Security- Nuke News
FR and JimRob credited in Missile Defense book by Alamo-Girl
-Shooting Down Missile Critics--
-Missile Defense Deployed in Russia--
-FBI COVER-UP OF CHINESE INFILTRATION OF WHITE HOUSE --
-Commission: U.S. weapons technology re-exported to Iran, Iraq, China--
-Arabs: Israel wants nuclear base in Red Sea--
-Russia selling atomic know-how, says US--
-RUMSFELD BLASTS RUSSIA OVER MISSILE DEFENSE--
-Bush, Missile Defense, and the Critics--
-The S-300PMU [SA-10 land-based, SA-N-6 naval version] surface-to-air missile system --
-Lots of Info Re:Nukes, Missiles, Cox Report, etc.--
-Nuke News, about 1/3rd down in the article--
-OISM has the best data available on how to survive nuclear attack --
-China markets new anti-aircraft system: Continued weapons proliferation worries West, neighbors
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