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Comment on: Dawnsblood's Rants

The death of Israel

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Swimming with Dolphins

If Iran is so foolish to actually do that, then Israel's last act will be the employment of what Proffessor Martin van Creveld at the University of Jerusalem calls the "Samson Doctrine", wherein Israel launches at...most everything it can. Mecca, Medina, Cairo, Baghdad, Damascus, Tehran...all gone. From my essay "Swimming With Dolphins":

Israel has relied on aircraft and Intermediate Range Ballistic Missiles, or IRBM's as primary nuclear delivery platforms from 1970 until recently. These include fighter-bombers such as the ubiquitous F-16, the outstanding F-15 Eagle and the aging but capable A-4 Skyhawk. The IRBM force is some 50 Jericho I missiles based on a French design from the 1960's, and about 50 Jericho II missiles developed in cooperation with the U.S., and similar in many respects to the Pershing missile deployed by NATO during the 1980's. Their ranges are about 500 and 1,500 km respectively, with a 1,000 yard CEP (circular error probability).
The final leg of the Israeli Triad is being built as we speak, in the German shipyards of Thyssen Nordseewerke and Howaldtswerke-Deutshe Werft. Israel has already taken delivery of three new "Dolphin" class fast-attack submarines based on the popular Type 212 class. The delivery of two more submarines was given final approval last November, with much of the total cost being shouldered by the German government. Three aging GAL class submarines built by Vickers of England have been decommissioned, with at least two of the subs now in Kiel, Germany undergoing extensive refits and modernization prior to delivery back to Israel for recommissioning.


You can read the rest at

http://celticharp.townhall.com/g/7af10b24-cf84-4cd5-8a4f-dd684496d3a3

btw, my blog is updated with info on the new ASAT weapons test from China.