As to why Israel picks certain targets......

[Bestinshow]

Some board members had questioned as to how Israel picks their targets. I think this is some insight.

http://dailynews.att.net/cgi-bin/news?e=pri&dt=031010&cat=news&st=newsmideastdc

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[silera]

I think that the reason I don't understand is that the papers use too many names.

That just gave me a headache.

Maybe they should just arm wrestle.


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[Bestinshow]

Maybe they should just arm wrestle.


If only we could convince everyone of this I think it would work.

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[Mike Teacher]

Well; if you mean Israel is targeting in order to prevent the use of Anti-Aircraft Missles, they have a point. With Precendece:

The USSR tried for a decade to kick Afghanistan's ass. And for a decade the Afghani fought them back, succesfully, with exactly those shoulder-fired SAM's, Surface to Air Missile.

The mountainout terrain dictates one of two ways of getting in:

1. On the ground

2. Helicopters

Well; the USSR's Heli were getting shot out of the sky with amazing regularity with a device you could carry around basically the size of a Wide Mailing Tube.

Amazingly simple technology: the Shoulder fired SAM. On some of them it's literally as easy as: open the ends of the tube, open up the sighting system [imagine a mailing tube with swiss-army knife capabilities], put it on your shoulder; hit a couple of buttons, sight the target, push the Trigger.

If it's heat-seeking, you don't even have to be on target;

There are also Rocket Propelled Grenades, and they, I believe, I may be wrong about all of this, but I think an RPG was responsible for bringing down on of the Black Hawk Heli's in Somolia.

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[Yerdaddy]

<a href="http://www.globalsecurity.org/org/news/2001/010924-attack01.htm" target="_blank">Stinger missiles and Afghanistan</a>
Both Afghanistan's ruling Taliban militia and the rebels of the Northern Alliance are believed to have a small supply of the missiles. Experts said it is unlikely they will present a great threat to U.S. aircraft flying over the country. During the late 1980s, the CIA, through Pakistan, supplied hundreds of missiles and launchers to the Afghan rebels, the mujahedeen. The rebels used the Stingers effectively, bringing down scores of Soviet helicopter gunships.

The introduction of Stingers into the conflict is widely regarded as a turning point in the war, as it gave the rebels a high-tech weapon to oppose the Soviets. The Soviets left Afghanistan in 1989, and the communist government there fell a short time later.

Rocket-propelled grenades brought down the two Black Hawks in Mogodishu. They don't have the guidance systems that Stingers do, so they're sort of a dime-a-dozen in third world conflict areas, but there were so damn many and the Black Hawks were flying so low and slow that a couple lucky shots got through.

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