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REPORT: U.S. ARMY ACQUIRES TWO IRON DOME BATTERIES
jpost ^ | 1/16/19 | Cassandra Gomes Hochberg

Posted on 02/07/2019 3:48:13 PM PST by Roman_War_Criminal

The US Army will acquire two Iron Dome batteries by 2020 as well as consider the full adoption of the Indirect Fire Protection Capability Increment 2-Intercept, both systems developed by Israel, Inside Defense reported Wednesday.

The Iron Dome batteries will provide US ground forces an interim capability against unmanned air vehicles, mortars, rockets, artillery and cruise missiles.

The US Army has been working to transform the Israeli interceptor into an American system to defend forward-deployed US forces since 2017.

The US Army has performed tests to evaluate which missile system would best serve this purpose.

Rafael Advanced Defense System's Iron Dome came before systems by Boeing and General Dynamics Land Systems’ specially armed Stryker vehicles.

(Excerpt) Read more at jpost.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Government; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: abm; ada; idf; irondome; israel; usarmy
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To: buckalfa

No ... we were involved, but it’s really an Israeli developed system.


21 posted on 02/07/2019 6:38:39 PM PST by NorthMountain (... the right of the peopIe to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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To: jonascord; All

“Was wondering this as well. Didn’t we knock down SCUDs in the Gulf War?”

They hit some of the Scuds with Patriots, but not all. I was there, and saw the Scuds flying overhead and landing with a boom that resounded for many miles. I also remember the cheering of the West Bank Arabs around us. If I recall correctly, one Scud hit an Israeli underground bomb bunker in Tel Aviv, killing upwards of 100 people.


22 posted on 02/07/2019 7:49:38 PM PST by tjd1454
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To: Roman_War_Criminal

Are they rechargeable? /sarc


23 posted on 02/07/2019 8:09:11 PM PST by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper (with)
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To: tjd1454
Just for your amusement. The Patriot missile was supersonic, before it cleared the launcher. That was a boom, too.

Watching the test launches was sh!t hot...

24 posted on 02/07/2019 9:28:40 PM PST by jonascord (First rule of the Dunning-Kruger Club is that you do not know you are in the Dunning-Kruger club.)
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To: Vlad The Inhaler
"Where are the Muslim designed and manufactured products that compare with those of Israel?"

1400 years of inbreeding, marrying their 1st cousins, just to keep the camels in the immediate family, is going to have a genetic effect.

Not quite as bad as the Hapsburg/Hohenzollern inbreeding, but how many Nobel Prizes, for science, have gone to Mecca?

It's interesting that the Russian bots still send in anti-Semitic comments, in the belief that Conservatives are Jew haters, at heart... That's a tell, by the way.

25 posted on 02/07/2019 9:38:13 PM PST by jonascord (First rule of the Dunning-Kruger Club is that you do not know you are in the Dunning-Kruger club.)
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To: Roman_War_Criminal

What makes you think they’re the ones that are paying for it?


26 posted on 02/08/2019 3:42:58 AM PST by mrmeyer (You can't conquer a free man; the most you can do is kill him. Robert Heinlein)
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To: jonascord

Yeah it’s long since been fixed.

The newest Patriot (PAC-3) uses a smaller, faster, and more accurate missile. The original system had 4 ready to fire missiles per launcher, with the PAC-3 it’s 16 per launcher.


27 posted on 02/08/2019 4:47:06 AM PST by 2CAVTrooper (Fianóglach)
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To: dennisw; Cachelot; Nix 2; veronica; Catspaw; knighthawk; Alouette; Optimist; weikel; Lent; GregB; ..
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28 posted on 02/08/2019 4:52:23 AM PST by SJackson (The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself)
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To: Gen.Blather
Iron Dome missiles cost $45,000 each. They have been used to shoot down $1500 missiles and $600 drones.

It's not so much a question of the cost of the missile as the damage caused by it.

29 posted on 02/08/2019 5:06:42 AM PST by gogeo (Liberal politics and mental instability; coincidence, correlation, or causation?)
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To: Vlad The Inhaler

15 million? That sounds low.


30 posted on 02/08/2019 5:10:43 AM PST by gogeo (Liberal politics and mental instability; coincidence, correlation, or causation?)
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To: buckalfa

You are correct. My wife was actually the Arrow Field Office manager for the US Army in Tel Aviv in 2005-6. Germany and Japan are the other two allies who submit their test data to the USA so we can compile every aspect of those weapon systems.


31 posted on 02/08/2019 5:42:33 AM PST by Jumper
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To: SJackson

About time. With what part of “it works” does anyone have a problem?


32 posted on 02/08/2019 6:41:46 AM PST by Eleutheria5 (If you are not prepared to use force to defend civilization, then be prepared to accept barbarism.)
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To: gogeo
15 million? That sounds low.

It is low.

But it is also a true fact.

According to all the sources I checked the actual total Jewish population in the entire world is somewhere in the neighborhood of 15 million.

And the muslims and 'progressives' are doing their best to reduce that Figure.

Check it out:

https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jewish-population-of-the-world


33 posted on 02/08/2019 6:55:31 AM PST by Vlad The Inhaler (A.D. 636 Jerusalem Falls To Islam, A.D. 642 Christian Egypt Is Lost To Islam)
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To: gaijin

So we paid to invent it and failed, they invented it on their own, then helped us to fix our Patroits, and are now helping us to invent our own.

Crazy Jews share their secrets with their friends...

And dont whine about it.


34 posted on 02/08/2019 7:45:50 AM PST by American in Israel (A wise man's heart directs him to the right, but the foolish mans heart directs him toward the left.)
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