Posted on 10/04/2007 9:39:34 AM PDT by Parmenio
What is the “hard floor” problem ?
In the Xbox game, Mothra has electronic countermeasures too. It automatically deflects energy beam weapons.
So we didn't want to embarrass Assad??
I agree Dog.
There's a missing piece here that we need to keep in mind as well. It may not dovetail with this story tactically, but I think it does strategically.
Remember that report from I think it was Janes, about 15 Iranians and an unspecified number of Syrians who were killed when they were loading a missile with a canister of VX nerve gas and it blew up on them due to a defect in the missile's motor or something. Just a few weeks ago.
I think the WWIII opinion is being given too little credence on this thread. I'm wondering if Syria, Iran & Co weren't planning a MAJOR attack with the intent of wiping Israel off the map, including at least one nuke.
It was to contain the plutonium that they worked so long and hard to extract and refine, instead of scattering it all over the site.
The confidence in the bomb was such, that it wasn't used, and is still rusting away at the site.
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You’re not the first person to ask me that today.
Air defense systems that use radar all have a “floor” and a “ceiling”. They can’t “see” anything below a certain altitude, and that’s their “floor”. They usually can “see” higher than they can attack (their missiles or guns usually have less range than their radars), so either the maximum altitude it can “see” to or attack to is called their “ceiling”, depending on who’s doing the classifications.
Now, you can have a “soft” floor, or a “hard” floor. A “soft” floor is, as I understand it, a recommendation - that the system may be able to see an attacker below that altitude, but it may not - or its range may be reduced due to the physics and physical limitations of radar. This is the kind of floor most often quoted on US and Western equipment.
On the other hand, Russian radar gear often has a “hard” floor, where the system simply cannot see anything below that altitude. Anything below that floor might as well not exist as far as the radar is concerned. The published “hard floor” for the systems that the Russians sold the Syrians and Iranians is about 500 feet. Which means that you can bring a 20’ tall strike aircraft in at 475 feet, and the thing will never see you coming.
If we put off the eradication of Iran until the Mrs. Bill administration there is a pretty good chance we will allow more than one nuclear strike against American targets before the Democrats realize that their bosom buddies ain’t their friends any more.
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Just like what you hear about in the movies.
You're referring to the incident of 23 Jul 07, which, not so coincidentally, is only now being brought to light. It would appear that something *big* was planned, and may well have been scotched. In the event that it hasn't totally been rendered non-operative, then all bets are off...
the infowarrior
Netenyahu said we’d be ‘stunned’, so it probably wasn’t a bumper sticker they took.
I was driving down the road, on base, with my family when the news came on the radio. I pulled off the road to finsih listening. I thought that SCUD shot was the opening round of WWIII.
We drove right back home and started Stage 1 preparations.
As it turned out, all the warheads were conventional.
A scary time indeed.
Ah. Didn't know that.
I guess calling the local fire department to hose it down is out of the question...
Thanks for posting. BTTT.
Best method of dealing with it - don’t be there....
ping for later
What movies are you referring to?
Though movies *do* occasionally get the facts right...
Bump
Second best, have someone else bury it in sand and graphite?
Bury it in molten lead. And then either by remote or have someone you really hate do it.
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