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Israeli Air Force Quadruples Firepower: 'Second Only to That of the United States'....
Reaganite Republican/Washington Free Beacon ^
| June 1, 2014 1:56 pm
| Abraham Rabinovich, Washington Free Beacon
Posted on 06/04/2014 6:10:06 AM PDT by Reaganite Republican
Faced by threats from Iran and her proxies, the Israelis can't even count on the standard logic of deterrence, which is built upon the assumption of self-preservation. That might work if your enemy is North Korea -who's elite are enjoying life/perks- but Israel's enemies are mostly genocidal kooks who can't wait to die for the cause, from Tehran all the way down to the ground in southern Lebanon/Gaza...
But what they can do is ensure they possess the capability to smash any foolishness from Hezbollah and/or Hamas promptly, since these groups lack the infrastructure for any sort of mass attack on the world's sole Jewish state.
So while Hezbollah may have as many as '100,000 rockets' from Iran, they can only launch a limited # of them per day, while Israel could rain-down thousands of missiles and smart bombs on southern Lebanon, setting back Hezbollah capabilities 'by decades' while they struggle to perhaps fire off a few rounds towards Israeli population centers.
To enable this strategy, Israel is currently in the midst of a radical air-power expansion that has brought a 4x increase in her striking power over the span of just two years:
The firepower of the Israel Air Force (IAF) will be four times greater by years end than it was two years ago, according to its commander, Maj. Gen. Amir Eshel, enabling Israel to bring another round of fighting with Hezbollah to a swift end.
We can destroy [Hezbollahs] military capabilities and the infrastructure that supports its activities on a scale that would take decades to rebuild, he told a conference on national security, an unimaginable scale. ...
Eshel acknowledged that Hezbollah now has precision rocketry capable of hitting Israels northernmost air force base and to interfere with operations. However, he said, it would not diminish the IAFs offensive capabilities, which can be projected from other bases as well. ...
The use of precision munitions and upgraded intelligence, based in part on satellites, accounts in good part for the increase in the IAFs effective firepower... the air force could carry out thousands of accurate strikes in a single day.
By the end of this year, the air force will be able accomplish in 24 hours what it took three days to accomplish in the war with Hezbollah eight years ago...
And if the Lebanese national government -and Army- get involved? It's now pretty much controlled by Hezbollah anyway, so it's not hard to envision the entire country dragged into a war with Israel. And which side would Obama take? Good question!
Yet this would probably be a grave error for the Lebanese, as already back in 2010 Israel had fully prepared a plan for the IDF to wipe the entire Lebanese military off face of the Earth in just four hours... one can only assume they're still ready to do that -and more- if circumstances demand it.
TOPICS: Military/Veterans
KEYWORDS: hezbollah; iaf; idf; israel
To: Reaganite Republican
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posted on
06/04/2014 6:13:24 AM PDT
by
ConservativeMan55
(In America, we don't do pin pricks. But sometimes we elect them.)
To: AdvisorB; ken5050; sten; paythefiddler; gattaca; bayliving; SeminoleCounty; chesley; Vendome; ...
To: Reaganite Republican
Smart move since they are pretty much alone in the world now. Obama loves him some camel riding, goat humping muslim savages.
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posted on
06/04/2014 6:21:48 AM PDT
by
Mich Patriot
(Pitch black is the new "transparent.")
To: Mich Patriot
Thats what I was thinking too
To: Reaganite Republican
BTW - the graphics archive at RR is good for some laughs. Thanks!
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posted on
06/04/2014 6:37:56 AM PDT
by
Mich Patriot
(Pitch black is the new "transparent.")
To: Reaganite Republican
What good is it if they let Iran get nukes?
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posted on
06/04/2014 6:51:19 AM PDT
by
montag813
To: Reaganite Republican
The firepower of the Israel Air Force (IAF) will be four times greater by years end than it was two years ago, according to its commander, Maj. Gen. Amir Eshel, enabling Israel to bring another round of fighting with Hezbollah to a swift end. good for them... i only wish they would use it...
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posted on
06/04/2014 7:07:07 AM PDT
by
latina4dubya
(when i have money i buy books... if i have anything left, i buy 6-inch heels and a bottle of wine...)
Comment #9 Removed by Moderator
To: Reaganite Republican
good for them
seems only americans think 0bama is on our side
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posted on
06/04/2014 8:19:34 AM PDT
by
sten
(fighting tyranny never goes out of style)
To: Mich Patriot
To: Reaganite Republican
With all due respect to the Israeli general, does he really think that he’s going to be given the order for a sustained bombing campaign over southern Lebanon with few targeting restrictions so that he can leverage all that firepower? Yeah, that’s what I thought...
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posted on
06/04/2014 9:27:53 AM PDT
by
Tallguy
To: Reaganite Republican
When Israel realized that they can count on America to side with the radical Islamists, they went it alone.
Doing well, too.
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posted on
06/04/2014 9:29:48 AM PDT
by
Lazamataz
(Early 2009 to 7/21/2013 - RIP my little girl Cathy. You were the best cat ever. You will be missed.)
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