Posted on 01/26/2002 7:51:13 PM PST by truthandlife
Palestinians are likely to try to fire the new Kassam-2 rocket at towns in central Israel in the near future, senior Israel Defense Forces officers predicted last week.
Israel has warned the Palestinian Authority, via several different channels, that any attempt to fire the rockets at an Israeli town would cross all red lines and provoke an extremely harsh Israeli response, which could include the reconquest of the cities from which the rockets were fired.
Information obtained by the defense establishment indicates that several Kassam-2 rocket launchers have already been stationed in Palestinian towns near the Green Line from which the rockets could hit targets in central Israel. The rockets, developed by Hamas activists in the Gaza Strip, have a range of about eight kilometers, and can carry a warhead of three to five kilograms. Currently, however, they are very inaccurate.
Over the last few months, Hamas has been smuggling the technology for making the rockets from Gaza to the West Bank, and a few weeks ago, Hamas conducted a successful test launch of the rocket in the Nablus area. According to current IDF assessments, there are relatively few rocket launchers in the West Bank, but neither the rockets nor the launchers are very difficult to manufacture, so their numbers can be expected to swell in the coming months.
So far, however, the Palestinians have used only the less powerful Kassam-1 rocket, which also has a shorter range.
On Friday, three of these rockets were fired at the Erez industrial zone in the northern Gaza Strip, but no one was injured.
A senior officer on the General Staff told Ha'aretz that the PA has done nothing to interfere with the Kassam-2's development.
"If rockets are fired from the West Bank into Israel, our response will be of a different order of magnitude entirely," he said. "We have warned the PA on this matter, through every possible channel of communication."
I'm glad to hear they are thinking of this. That was my suggestion on another thread--although I suggested it as an announced warning/policy for further attacks on civilians by any means.
Write the name of the lawyer who is mounting the defence of 'Johnny-Jihad-Walker' right in front of you!
Use a magic-marker, and write down their names! They are trying to destroy our glorious country, so WRITE DOWN THEIR NAMES, DAMMIT!!
Sometimes I wonder, how many times do the Dassholes and Grabhards have to see the WTC buildings crashing-down in bloody-flames, before they become Americans? The World Trade Center Buildings were destroyed!
"They're not listening now, perhaps they never will"!
To borrow another Freepers comments "empty buildings quake in fear..."
Is this something that fits in a car trunk, or a garage?
When I was in high school, we built a rocket which lifted a nearly 2 kg payload about a mile high. That would have been about 4 kilometers range. It was fueld with zinc and sulfur and was 5 feet long and 2 inches in diameter. There are far more powerful fuels than we used, and a rocket the size of ours, or shorter and thicker would easily have the desired range and payload with easily obtainable fuel.
Once again, locked in their own mental world, they are miscalculating. After 9/11, citizens of the western world (not necessarily the media elites) see Palestinian terrorism as part of the threat to themselves. Accordingly, there is indifference to the steps taken by Israel to defend itself, and intifada type tactics have lost their effectiveness.
Depends on the fuel used. The shuttle's boosters have a specific impulse of 300 (one pound of fuel generates 300 pounds of thrust). That fuel is, IIRC, powdered aluminum and ammonium perchlorate. You can get up to about 450 or so with liquid hydrogen and oxygen, but that isn't practical for a weapon. Black powder will get you about 100-110, and the "smokeless powder" (actually a plastic compound) used in the WW2 bazooka will give you somewhere around 200 or so.
Now, you have to do a whole boatload of math to calculate how much fuel you need, because in addition to lifting the warhead, you have to lift the fuel you haven't used yet and the rocket carcass as well.
My vote on the fuel is some variant of smokeless powder.
My personal gut feel is that one rocket would fit in a trunk, but five kilos of warhead is just asking to get a few hundred kilos in return for minimal gain. Better to have a delivery truck rigged to barrage the boogers--you could store them in the firing position, open a hole in the roof, set a timer, run like hell.
Use a magic-marker, and write down their names! They are trying to destroy our glorious country***
I started to call you the other night with this very idea... those defending this traitor are doing their part to tear down America... and there are far too many of them.
Sometimes I think I see what UBL saw... we might not win this thing.
My Jr. High had a rifle team.
School sure ain't what it used to be.
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