Posted on 11/25/2012 6:52:11 AM PST by Strategy
Israeli spy satellites have spotted an Iranian ship being loaded with missiles that analysts say may be headed for Gaza, The Sunday Times reported.
According to the report, the cargo may include Fajr-5 rockets, like those that were fired by Hamas toward Israel and the stockpiles of which the Israel Defense Forces depleted during the recent round of fighting across the Gaza border, in addition to Shahab-3 ballistic missiles, which could be stationed in Sudan to pose a direct threat to Israel.
"With a lot of effort, Iran has skillfully built a strategic arm pointing at Israel from the south," an Israeli source was quoted as saying.
The cargo would travel via the Red Sea, Sudan and Egypt, following a well-established route used by Iran to smuggle arms into Gaza, the Times reported.
"We believe that Iranian warships anchored in Eritrea will accompany the weapons ship as soon as it enters the Red Sea," an Israeli source told the Times.
(Excerpt) Read more at haaretz.com ...
So?! Israel either doesn’t have the guts or the ability (or both) to put a sustained hurt on the Arabs. They get what’s coming to them, just as in the past. Getting tired of this nonsense.
Attention, IDF nuclear subs. Can you make it look like they pissed off a pot of sperm wales.
Attention, IDF nuclear subs. Can you make it look like they pissed off a pod of sperm wales.
This was reported towards the beginning of Operation Pillar of Cloud. What has been done about it? Nothing? I thought so!
“The Iron Dome is an economically unsustainable defense against rockets as cheap as the Palis are using.”
Interesting observation.
However….
The Israelis really don’t have much of a choice but to keep using their “economically unsustainable” defense system since they have nothing else (outside of extended and possibly unsustainable combat) with which to diminish the missile attacks.
In that sense, their defense policy is not unlike the United State’s _economic_ policy, which is to keep borrowing to prop up an unsustainable system, because there really aren’t any acceptable policies that stand a chance of being implemented.
Lasers are the answer to that conundrum, and you can be sure they are working on it.
Does anyone think that ship will make it to Egypt/Lebanon??
Not necessarily. If the US, South Korea and others bought in, the price per unit drops substantially.
The vast majority of the price of these Iron Dome missiles is in the development costs
Jet interceptors were Nazi Germany's solution to the Allied Bomber Offensive. Would have worked if they'd obtained significant numbers maybe as little as 6 months earlier. Timing is everything.
They better load them right or there may be an accident at sea.
I think they are called "torpedoes". Just be careful as it is possible to shoot yourself with them.
Regards,
GtG
Saw an article last night about the US Navy developing that very thing.
Sink the ship!
Point being you don’t give them a chance to reload like they are doing in GAZA.
As a former manufacturing engineer making components for Patriot missiles I would know that. I also know that the economies of scale in such high frequency components and rapid response actuators are not there yet. There is no way can they get that unit to be economical against $1,000 rockets. A laser is the only tool that will make such a war of attrition unwinnable for the Palis.
“The Iron Dome is an economically unsustainable defense against rockets as cheap as the Palis are using.”
Easy to say when the Palis can buy their missiles at Radio Shack and set them up without Israeli drone overhead.
...but they can’t - and Israel will have NO PROBLEM shooting down as many as needed. The only question now is whether they can ramp up production fast enough. Cost is not a factor, once you do the math.
“There is no way can they get that unit to be economical against $1,000 rockets. A laser is the only tool that will make such a war of attrition unwinnable for the Palis.”
They don’t have to match $1,000 per shootdown, they only have to be able to shoot down rockets faster than they can be set up and fired off by the palis. That is not hard to do. Israel has given word that they’re about to sink the next Iranian warship that tries a delivery - so now the Palis have to try to build them from scratch, basically the sand in Gaza.
There’s more to economics than just a text book.
With a Russian flotilla offshore. Yeah, uh huh, nothing to it.
- so now the Palis have to try to build them from scratch, basically the sand in Gaza.
No they won't. They'll come via Egypt or maybe even via our friends in Iraq.
There’s more to economics than just a text book.
There's more to logistics in religious wars and geopolitics than running factories, or hand waving.
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