Posted on 10/27/2024 4:25:16 PM PDT by Libloather
The Israel Defense Forces blew up a 1.2 mile-long Hezbollah tunnel filled with weapons and supplies near the border, with the blast so powerful that it triggered earthquake alarms on Saturday.
The IDF said the tunnel was just one of several located in southern Lebanon that was being prepped for Hezbollah’s elite Radwan forces to one day invade Israel in an attack similar to the Oct. 7 massacre.
Inside the tunnels, Israeli troops found AK-47 rifles, explosives, rocket launchers, sniper rifles and anti-tank guided missiles and launchers.
The soldiers also found a massive stash of food, including canned goods, chocolates and even pickled olives — with enough goodies to feed more than 100 fighters, the IDF said.
The base had working electricity and plumbing, along with several bedrooms and bathrooms for the terrorists.
Officials said they discovered the tunnel during a 48-hour operation in southern Lebanon, where Israeli forces battled with Hezbollah fighters stationed near the tunnel system.
After killing off the terrorists – along with four other Hezbollah operatives at a nearby, smaller tunnel – the soldiers made their way inside the 1.2 mile-long underground base.
The tunnel was filled with Hezbollah’s booby traps and mines, with IDF troops successfully clearing them out so its forces could investigate.
The IDF then lined the tunnel system with about 400 tons of explosives and blew it up on Saturday, with the force so great that false-earthquake alarms were set off across northern Israel.
The massive seismic activity was detected across 284 communities in Israel and the West Bank, according to the Jerusalem Post.
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Why wouldn’t Israel keep all those munitions to use them themselves!?
Check your math.
Hot combat zone. Denial operations are sometimes all you can reasonably do.
He’s only off by a few thousand tons.....
Bump
Israel manufactures most of their own small arms and ammunition.
But you knew that.
L
I ain’t fakin’
There’s a whole lot
of shakin’ going’ on.
—Jerry Lee Lewis
Of course. But I would let the US know that there are alternatives to buying weapons from the US. The early Air Force had many French planes, MIGs, any other equipment from other countries. The early tanks were T34s, and they even had advanced Russian tanks captured in 1956 and 1967, 1973, etc., which Israel has adapted. So yes, Israel Now develops their own weapons and ammo and eventually all of it. The price with the US is too high sometimes, depending on who sits in the Whitehouse.
LOL, never confuse a pound with a ton.
They’d be handing out free pagers!
Army Is Spending Half a Billion to Train Soldiers to Fight Underground
What I was thinking.
“But I would let the US know that there are alternatives to buying weapons from the US.”
What alternative to the F-35 is available on the open market?
L
Israelis have been successful through the years in making adaptations on whatever fighters they have purchased, including the 36 F35is that they have.
They probably did yes? Article doesn’t say they didn’t and....as Grandma Lurkin used to say...”Waste not, want not.”
the most serious problem is that Israeli leadership let these terrorists (both north and south) stockpile thousands of bombs and dig hundreds of miles of hiding tunnels
over the course of years
it was no secret, none of it
Israel has the means to detect and monitor both enemy activities, no problem at all
having Quislings or cowards in charge of your country is NOT healthy
Adapting ain’t manufacturing.
L
You misspelled ‘pieces’
It is the religion of ‘pieces’ - cause that is all that is left after they are done with you.
I was never good in math.
To the Grammer Slammer with them.
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