Posted on 11/25/2012 10:06:22 PM PST by cruise_missile
(TheBlaze/AP) Israel successfully tested its newest missile defense system Sunday, the military said, a step toward making the third leg of what Israel calls its multilayer missile defense operational.
The Davids Sling system is designed to stop mid-range missiles. It successfully passed its test, shooting down its first missile in a drill Sunday in southern Israel, the military said.
The system is designed to intercept projectiles with ranges of up to 300 kilometers (180 miles).
Israel has also deployed Arrow systems for longer-range threats from Iran. The Iron Dome protects against short-range rockets fired by militants in the Gaza Strip and Hezbollah guerrillas in Lebanon. The Iron Dome was crucial in the most recent round of fighting, shooting down hundreds of rockets from Gaza.
Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak said the success of Iron Dome highlighted the immense importance of such systems.
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this last round with Hamas was all about Iran being able to test the response and capabilities of Iron Dome and use up valuable ordnance supplies .
Israel needs to come out about it’s actual nuke arsenal and roughly state it’s target list , if attack . The target list should include Mecca and Medina and all major Arab cities . All of them .
And that damnable well in Qom.
Imagine glassing over a major supposedly Allah-guarded Islamic holy site.
Israelis won’t do that, of course, because of the populations of visitors and natives at such places. Jews are humane to a fault. But one can dream.
Only time for the STHTF... its coming.. nukes going off like fireworks..
And us sitting here with PeeWee Herman running the military..
As I stated on several occasions in the past and of course it was met by some with a sly remark. History has a nasty habit of repeating itself, the point being that a nuclear exchange in the Sinai Peninsular would not be the first time as the last one about 4032 years ago went down in the annals of history as Sodom and Gomorrah. I hope and pray we will not have a repeat, but you may want to save this post as a reference just in case it may happen, re-emphasizing the stupidity and ignorance of mankind.
Actually, Israel should preempt against all major arab population centers, significant military targets and some non-arab islamic targets.
That would take less than 10% of the Israeli capacity for a first-strike with abundant second-strike capacity.
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