Posted on 10/02/2024 7:43:30 AM PDT by Red Badger
For others it might be.
Thanks!...............
Very interesting, thanks. I thought I read the USA was providing some protection also?
Talk about being in the wrong place at the right time. Poor sap. May he rest in peace.
“ I sure hope he deserved it.”
That’s a fair question. Most Israeli Arabs are just normal citizens.
There are lots of exceptions to this, but, generally speaking, they’re just boring everyday citizens trying to make a living.
Odds are he was an average guy just walking home from work or whatever.
Well Toto, that one didn’t fall from Kansas.
They just are up against people who are under constant attack and so have their defenses up and working at all times.
The majority of the world does not live under those conditions.
The Iranians claimed they destroyed Nevatim base last April
Uh no
Like, the IDF is just going to park their fighters at airbases and wait for a missile barrage?
Even Baghdad Bob couldn’t top that...............
I shot a missile in the air,
It feel to Earth I know not where,
Until the next day with rage profound,
the Palestinian terrorist squashed body it fell on was made into a viral Youtube video and got 10 million hits....
I saw that on Amir’s Telegram feed.
The guy had no clue what hit him. I’m sure he didn’t hear it coming since it fell sideways as opposed to nose down as you’d expect an active missile to do.
It looks like it probably broke every bone in his body the way he bounced and flopped to the side.
At least he didn’t suffer.................
It looked like the rocket body, not the warhead. If the missile was staged, had more than rocket motor and separated, the rocket motor should have separated far, far from Israel or the West Bank.
This site lists Iran’s missile inventory:
Their short range missiles cannot reach Israel. Their long range missiles have more than enough range, but would be wasted on this kind of attack. We can conclude that the attack was carried out with medium range ballistic missiles. All of Iran’s medium range ballistic missiles are single stage. The table does not specify whether or not they were separating (warhead separates from rocket body) like the Minuteman or if they were unitary, non-separating, like the Scud or V-2.
It appears (to me) that this is the rocket body of a separating medium range ballistic missile. Iron dome, presumably, is smart enough to distinguish the rocket body from the warhead, and ignore rocket body.
The “original” Patriot used in Gulf War I, had a fragmentation warhead and sprayed the target missile with debris. (It’s a little more complicated, but leave it at that.) A new round was added to the Patriot arsenal that has shorter range, but is much smaller and lighter, and four of them fit in the same cannister as one Patriot Classic. The new round is “hit to kill”, basically a steel battering ram that demolishes the warhead on impact. It’s likely Iron Dome is similar. One advantage of hit-to-kill is that is disperses chemical warheads, and disables nuclear warheads.
Seriously......
I had a friend long ago who said the thing that bothered her the most wasn’t people dying from illness or disease, but the freak accident kind of thing, like this would be.
There was a death in Buffalo once on the expressway. A flatbed carrying a large roll of some kind of metal had to serve to miss something. The straps broke and the roll of metal rolled off the flatbed onto the car next to it, instantly killing whoever had the misfortune of being in the car where it landed.
Pulpwood trucks scare me. I pass them as quickly possible.
There was a local accident her a few years back that thankfully no one was injured where car came around a curve and a pulpwood truck had stopped in the road because a log was coming out of the load and sticking out behind the bed.
The car was impaled on the log that went through the grille, radiator, engine compartment, firewall, front and rear seats, trunk and exited the back of the car.
I got to see the car at the junkyard with the log still in place. It was a miracle......................
That worked for me.
Thanks!
There was a guy fishing in the irrigation canal with his grandson when a car lost its wheel on the road nearby. The wheel came off the car as the car was driving by and the wheel rolled a couple of hundred feet and hit the guy from behind, killing him instantly. Of all the places for a wheel to come off and roll and hit someone seemingly at random! Plus his little grandson was sitting right next to him. I suppose the only good thing to say was that it didn’t hit the kid.
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