7/30/2006

Israel's question: How to stop $500 rockets?

Even before fighting escalated this month between the Jewish state and Hezbollah , US contractors had been working to supply Israel with countermeasures against the kind of crude but deadly rockets that the Islamist militia has rained down on the north of the country. Ideas include low-cost interceptor missiles from Raytheon Co. , and a laser system from Northrop Grumman Corp. that the US Army has mothballed for lack of development funds.

The efforts reflect some limitations of the Israeli military, despite having Raytheon's Patriot missile in its arsenal. The Patriot, which can cost around $1 million apiece, is hardly a cost-effective way to knock down the $500 to $2,000 Katyusha rockets that Iran has been supplying to Hezbollah, said John E. Pike , director of GlobalSecurity.org, a defense research group in Alexandria, Va. . . . .

2 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

I think it's worth noting that the katyushas which have been "rainging down" upon Israel are being launched as a response to Israel's bombing of Lebanon, and are not all that deadly in practice—Hezbollah has launched thousands of them by now, and killed only about 2 dozen people.

Israel killed more children than that today with one bomb.

7/30/2006 9:24 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

There's always an Islamo-fascist apologist around when you need one ;-)

Recursing into the 'justifications' for 'responses' is a fraudulent waste of time...trying looking at the actual *intent* of each party involved.

There will always be a need for a 'solution' to the Israeli 'situation' as far as Hezbollah are concerned. They will constantly find fault with every proposal. They will constantly betray every agreed resolution, and defraud their implementation. They will continue to fire missiles at Jewish civilians, then scream with outrage at the collateral damage *they themselves* invite into the Lebanese people. Hezbollah are solely responsible for every 'innocent' man, woman & child killed by the IDF.

Israel is going to extraordinary lengths to minimize civilian casualties, despite the sickening disregard Hezbollah has for the well-being of their own people.

Claiming katyushas are "not all that deadly" is the icing on your brain-dead cake...would you like to juggle a couple of them? Let your kids play near them? 100lbs of explosive is most definitely a *deadly* weapon...and they are being cheaply mass-produced and lobbed with gleeful abandon at innocent Jewish men, women & children.

I look forward to the day when the world realizes that these Islamic psychopaths occupy an untenable position in relation to the rest of the civilized world...and that if they cannot or will not evolve, then they must be exterminated for futures' sake.

7/31/2006 1:45 PM  

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