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.
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No ... we were involved, but it’s really an Israeli developed system.
“Was wondering this as well. Didnt 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.
Are they rechargeable? /sarc
Watching the test launches was sh!t hot...
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.
What makes you think they’re the ones that are paying for it?
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.
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It's not so much a question of the cost of the missile as the damage caused by it.
15 million? That sounds low.
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.
About time. With what part of “it works” does anyone have a problem?
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
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.
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