Spot The Difference - IDF Rocket, Hizb'allah Rocket

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This picture of a Lebanese rocket seems to confirm quite well the picture of the article and why they count the number of rockets fired rather than what they damage...

(Well, link is gone...)

I have the picture, anyone knows how I can post it directly?
 
Chris, you'll need to host it somewhere and then link to the file URL using the
tags.
 
Damage done by Hizb'allah rocket in Israel

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OMG NO. NO. This sickens me. A CRACK IN THE ROAD. Oh god. What is Israel going to do, how can they fend off such aggresive mass destruction??? :/
 
Russ said:
OMG NO. NO. This sickens me. A CRACK IN THE ROAD. Oh god. What is Israel going to do, how can they fend off such aggresive mass destruction??? :/
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No kidding. My God, I hope someone was able to get that police man some help, he looks like he was placed in a devistating situation. *I need a sick bag*
 
Yep i can see that the rockets landing in Israel are nothing compared to those landing in Lebanon,but if one hits you on the head your dead....human killed=bad
 
I'm not sure what anyone's trying to prove other than to make themselves feel good about not supporting Israel...?

The question is not about the size of the damage, but the fact that anyone's attacking anyone at all. Just because I decide to pick on someone at school doesn't mean I can justify it by saying that I only punched him in the stomach, not the face.
 
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I'm not sure what anyone's trying to prove other than to make themselves feel good about not supporting Israel...?

The question is not about the size of the damage, but the fact that anyone's attacking anyone at all. Just because I decide to pick on someone at school doesn't mean I can justify it by saying that I only punched him in the stomach, not the face.
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this is not about making ourselves feel good! if you want a 'feel good' forum you've in the wrong place, there's plenty others out there.
and you're grossly misrepresenting the given example, with your bully analogy. I could explain why in detail, but you seem to be trawling the threads, making some rather uninformed comments on the Israeli conflict (including accusing this forum of making uninformed arguments!), and my advice is to do some serious research into exactly what is happening over there.
 
It seems that accuracy and a clear plan is the Hizb'allah's downfall. Are we to assume that maybe these attacks were not intended to harm and therefore are the work of the the IDF? Or are we to assume that the Hizb'allah is not a very organized group and are sending rockets over wthout any real direction in mind? I would be very interested in further understanding why the Hizb'allah rockets are doing far less damage than the IDF rockets. I am sure that power and organization are factors, but what is the underlying element? Is this coincidence or something more?.....I will say, however, that the lack of seriousness and absurd posts left on this subject are a little unnerving. We are still talking about real people's living hell and it should be addresses with a dose of class.
 
Hi there,
your post is about "Spot The Difference" can we see the otherside. When i first saw those Katoosha's (nicknamed) it reminded me of my early age Crayon set. I think they went to a fireworks company and this is the best they could come up with.

One noteworthy aspect of all this exercise is that enormous quantity of these missiles have revealed a gap in the Patriot Battery system and Israeli Air Defense Shield. It can intercept many rockets at a time but not dozens. I think this will help Israel to come up with some new missile defense system.
 
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One noteworthy aspect of all this exercise is that enormous quantity of these missiles have revealed a gap in the Patriot Battery system and Israeli Air Defense Shield. It can intercept many rockets at a time but not dozens. I think this will help Israel to come up with some new missile defense system.
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An other noteworthy aspect is the thousands of dead and injured innocent Lebanese civilians.
 
homemars said:
One noteworthy aspect of all this exercise is that enormous quantity of these missiles have revealed a gap in the Patriot Battery system
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http://www(dot)cdi.org/issues/bmd/Patriot.html

During the Gulf War, the Patriot was assigned to shoot down incoming Iraqi Scud or Al-Hussein Missiles launched at Israel and Saudi Arabia. The U.S. Army which was in charge of the Patriots claimed an initial success rate of 80% in Saudi Arabia and 50% in Israel. Those claims were scaled back to 70 and 40 percent. (See Frontline, WGBH Educational Foundation: "The Gulf War" and "Gulf War-A comprehensive guide to people, places and weapons" by Boyne, Walter Colonel U.S.A.F. (Ret), Signet 1991) (Part of the reason the success rate was 30% higher in Saudi Arabia than is Israel is that in Saudi Arabia the Patriots merely had to push the incoming Scud missiles away from military targets in the desert or disable the Scud's warhead in order to avoid casualties, while in Israel the Scuds were aimed directly at cities and civilian populations.The Saudi Government also censored any reporting of Scud damage by the Saudi press. The Israeli Government did not institute the same type of censorship. Furthermore, the Patriot's success rate in Israel was examined by the IDF (Israel Defense Forces) who did not have a political reason to play up the Patriots success rate and even had reasons to downplay the Patriot's success rate. The IDF counted any Scud that exploded on the ground (regardless of whether or not it was diverted) as a failure for the Patriot. Meanwhile the U.S. Army who had many reasons to support a high success rate for the Patriots, examined the performance of the Patriots in Saudi Arabia.)

http://www(dot)wsws.org/articles/2003/feb2003/cbc-f07.shtml - this includes mention of a high success rate whilst covering up the reality that it's about 25% success.

Of course the only 100% rate was against an RAF GR4 Tornado in 2003 - http://news(dot)bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/2877349.stm
 
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