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200 Rockets Hit Israel; 23 Gazans Killed in Return
Topic Started: Mar 12 2012, 02:30 PM (223 Views)
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That's the headline. Anyway, they are cranking up the attacks on Israel.

http://news.yahoo.com/200-rockets-hit-israel-23-gazans-killed-return-145000964--abc-news.html

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I have friends who left yesterday for a tour of Israel.... their lifetime dream. Said they wanted to go before "things got hot there".
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Mar 12 2012, 02:30 PM
That's the headline. Anyway, they are cranking up the attacks on Israel.

http://news.yahoo.com/200-rockets-hit-israel-23-gazans-killed-return-145000964--abc-news.html

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Can we call it - The War on Israel?



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Mar 12 2012, 02:31 PM
I have friends who left yesterday for a tour of Israel.... their lifetime dream. Said they wanted to go before "things got hot there".
Regular hot, or nuclear hot?
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The IDF has touted the success of its missile-intercepting system, the Iron Dome, which they said intercepted more than 50 rockets heading for densely populated areas. It did malfunction on Sunday, allowing rockets to hit an empty school and a parked car, the newspaper Haaretz reported. Israel's Home Front Command ordered schools across the south closed on Monday, the second day in a row.


Have we got an Iron Dome system for the US (in case North Korea or Hezbollah start sending some our way?)

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If we were closing schools in the US due to rockets being fired at us, what would be our response?

(What will Israel's response be if the rockets hit a school full of kids?)

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On 16 August 2011, Raytheon Company announced that it had teamed with Rafael in order to lead marketing in the United States for the Iron Dome system. "Iron Dome complements other Raytheon weapons that provide intercept capabilities to the US Army’s Counter Rocket, Artillery, and Mortar initiative at forward operating bases," said Mike Booen, vice president of Raytheon Missile Systems’ Advanced Security and Directed Energy Systems product line. "Iron Dome can be seamlessly integrated with Raytheon’s C-RAM systems to complete the layered defense."[61]

On 10 November 2011 the Jerusalem Post reported that the US Army had expressed interest in acquiring the system, to be deployed outside forward bases in Iraq and Afghanistan that could potentially be targeted by Katyusha rockets. The US military had discovered 107 mm. Katyushas in Iraq in the past.[62] On 1 December 2011 the Jerusalem Post reported that the US Army would decide in January 2012[dated info] whether it would purchase the system. Yossi Druker, head of Rafael’s Air-to-Air Directorate, said that the initial deal is valued at $100 million, but could reach several hundred million dollars over a number of years.[63]
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ID can also intercept artillery shells...

It has a specific mission that wouldn't necessarily fit other needs.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_Dome
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Owebama abandoned the development our most sophisticated Missile Defense system.
He laughed it off as a Pie-in-the-Sky.



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Edited by Mason, Mar 12 2012, 03:56 PM.
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