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Shortly after I got up this morning and checked my computer I quickly learned that a second joint Israeli/US military strike is underway with many targets being struck including IRGC facilities also that Ayatollah Khamenei appears to have been deliberately targeted and eliminated. I'm surprised...

View: https://x.com/masao_dahlgren/status/1933595883410440421 Like a game of Missile Command. Also drives home the difference between the missiles we typically see landing in Ukraine and those coming from Iran. The Iranian missiles are glowing due to their higher speed (because they had to...

I couldn't find a thread related to Israeli AFVs in general, so I'm hoping all Israeli AFV related stuff can be consolidated here. Obviously it's not all just Merkava. Short story: IDF is looking into adding drones and LMs to its AFVs. Background: This is fairly old news. It's all part of the...

Rafael Helispot is/was an Israeli system for non-line of sight infrasound detection and triangulation of battlefield helicopters that was developed in several marks. All I have about it is this: https://irp.fas.org/agency/dod/jason/infrasound.pdf mentions possible further source: "Srour, N...

On October 7th 2023 and the following days, Israel was attacked on 7 fronts. In contrast with wars in the past 20 years, the threat included not only rockets but also drones, routinely launched from Gaza, Lebanon, Iraq, Yemen, and Iran. Most of these were evidently fairly easy to detect, track...

What would would happen in a scenario where there Arab coalition DEFEATED the newborn state of Israel OR it is NEVER voted in the UN to exist ?

In 2023 Israeli company Rafael unveiled the SkySting. First named SkySpear but quickly renamed. Product page here. Rafael makes several claims: It's a 6th gen missile. Leap in RF seeker capabilities. 3 pulse motor instead of 2 pulse. Significant range increase (and "very long range"). Extra...

This thread is related to the alleged Israeli strike preparations against Iran of mid-October 2024 as indicated by the leaked documents published on the web at: https://t.me/Middle_East_Spectator/11183 Quotation:

Most odd attack happened today in Lebanon. There are reports on exploding beepers throughout Lebanon allegedly targeting Hezbollah members. https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/dozens-hezbollah-members-wounded-lebanon-when-pagers-exploded-sources-witnesses-2024-09-17/...

https://www.armyrecognition.com/news/army-news/army-news-2024/israeli-first-operationnal-use-of-new-8x8-fully-automatic-155mm-howitezer-nammed-thunder View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jr61hJ1a038

The great turkey shoot over Jordan (04 2024) : On the night of Saturday to Sunday 14th 04 24, Iran launched a series of Missile and drone strikes against Israel. Launches were reported from Iran, Irak and Yemen totalling 320 drones, Cruise and ballistic missiles (respectively, 170, 30 and 120...

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-62875673

Does anyone here know or have photos/videos of what the MiG-21LanceR avionics and systems look like? Or what they do exactly , If that makes sense ? I'm just very curios about it and I don't know too much ...Thanks!

After the end of the Second World War, the surviving Jews in the Nazi concentration camps set off a new wave of return to their hometowns and settle down in Palestine. Seeing that the time was right, Zionism began to raise up, calling on Jews living in different parts of the world to return to...

https://www.jpost.com/arab-israeli-conflict/gaza-news/guardian-of-the-walls-the-first-ai-war-669371 https://www.timesofisrael.com/idf-says-it-thwarted-underwater-drone-attack-by-hamas-from-northern-gaza/...

https://apnews.com/article/dubai-iran-united-arab-emirates-persian-gulf-tensions-yemen-9c89b8a5571468f1f12be535e8825212

If anyone have information about these missiles, please share RAMPAGE ROCKS SPARROW

From SDASM Flickr photostream - what is obviously a visit to Northrop from an Israeli delegation. Anyone know more?

http://www.defense-aerospace.com/articles-view/release/3/169661/israel-mod-confirms-arrow-3-test-success.html "This morning, the Ministry of Defense along with the US Missile Defense Agency, conducted the first successful test using the "Arrow 3" defense system designated for interception of...

Seems to me like this was (still is?) being worked on as a backup/supplement to Iron Dome: http://www.google.de/patents/US7707922 From the patent, it looks like the mobile launcher vehicle is designed to be easily disguisable/relatively inconspicuous. It might not have the raw firepower of the...