I may not be a rich man, but I found myself drinking Chardonnay.

I found this supercut on Mike Peinovich’s twitter account. Not sure if he was the original creator.

My jubiliation is matched only by the consternation felt by the zionist puppets leaders of the Zionist Occupied Governments Free World That Hates Terrorism. For example, Keir Starmer.

You may remember him as the head of the English Government that is sending twelve year olds to jail for criticizing mass migration after a migrant deliberately stabbed eleven English elementary school girls, murdering three of them.

Sky News:

Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer said those found responsible for the disorder would “feel the full force of the law”.

“The people of Southport are reeling after the horror inflicted on them yesterday. They deserve our support and our respect,” he said on X.

“Those who have hijacked the vigil for the victims with violence and thuggery have insulted the community as it grieves.”

I didn’t cover it, but there was a short lived although much deserved response by the English people in response to the Rwandan child stabber.

However, these particular social justice activists got thrown in jail. To make room for them in jail, Keir Starmer’s (((Government))) – a huge supporter of BLM riots – emptied the prisons of violent career criminals.

Spectator UK:

Popping champagne, skulking off to smoke a spliff and pledging to become a life-long Labour voter. Anyone concerned about criminal justice in Britain will find the well-documented glee of the 1,700 prisoners given early release around the country this week galling indeed. As domestic abusers and career criminals walk free, many will have been struck by the contrast with the government’s response to last month’s riots, bringing to mind that most irresistible of epithets: ‘two-tier Keir’.

I wanted a better source than (((the media))), so I turned to Mark Collett, knowing that he is the best documenter of the Zionist oppression of the English People. He is also, through Patriotic Alternative, their current best hope for escaping the zionists criminal grasp. That’s why Musk made sure to kick him off his “free speech” twitter.

To the celebration of “right wing jewish lesbian[s],” who are “zionists since birth,” and whine about the “extremist far left” piling on them for merely supporting the genocidal state of Israel’s right to murder terrorist three year olds.

Dear @twittersafety the extremist far left are piling on me now & reporting me just for having a moderate Conservative opinion. I am not racist. I’m Jewish. I know what racism can do.

Jaime, show us the pictures of what Jew racism can do please?

Thank you Jaime.

It was extremely difficult tracking down Collett’s twitter account. When I searched for his handle, I got one single solitary result, and none for People.

The only result was from this tiny account, luckily posting the exact video I wanted.

Free speech absolutist Elon Musk makes sure that his radical free speech site refuses to connect to the Collett’s dangerously bigoted video when you click on it.

It’s annoying, but I manually searched for the video after learning of the title. Starmer, and the rest of the UK (((Democracy Class))) is as disgusting and enraging as you expect.

Anyway, this “extreme hyper leftist” in Keir Starmer only hates one thing more than the English People, and that’s the mullahs of Iran. He only loves one thing more than BLM, and that’s the genocidal state of Israel.

This is a screenshot of this Zionist faggot denouncing Iran, but I find him so utterly revolting that I honestly cannot stand to listen to the sound of his voice. I just can’t do it.

Over here in Canada our brave male feminist compassion leader is also, shockingly, siding with Israel yet again like always.

As of time of writing, this fag’s last three tweets are all seething aimed in the general direction of Israel.

Canada unequivocally condemns Iran’s reckless attack against Israel. It puts innocent civilians at risk.

We fully support Israel’s right to defend itself against this attack. And, we repeat our call for de-escalation across the region, for the safety of all civilians.

Jaime, do we have the…

And also the…

What about –

You’re the best, Jaime.

Need I even show the US Government Officials in action? They don’t bother pretending that they aren’t in office exclusively to serve Israelis at this point. But those Israelis certainly need the help. The evil terrorists are attacking military targets in civilian areas, and we know the Jew Ethnostate would never do such a thing!

Above we see Mike Peinovich’s twitter account. Sure, the NJP fiasco still cuts deep, but let’s step over that for now, like an Israeli soldiers steps over the corpse of a two year old Palestinian terrorist, and focus on the current issue.

Can it really be true that CNN is whining about civilians being caught in the crosshairs of military actions, when we’ve just witnessed a bare minimum of fourty thousand civilians slaughtered by Israel in the past year, and two thousand in just the latest attack on Hezbollah in Lebanon? That couldn’t possibly be true of our brave Juden, so I fact-checked this Goy and transcribed the video below.

Among the targets were Israeli airfields, but also, and this is crucial, the headquarters of Mossad, the international intelligence service of Israel, which is inside Tel Aviv. It’s in the northern part of Tel Aviv, but it’s in the city. It’s in a densely populated area. And of course the concern is that you’re firing – even though Iran might consider that a military target – it is in a densely populated city with civilians around it and that’s just one more layer of escalations.

Jaime, can you please pull up those photos of Gaza?

Often I found myself stunned. I did not know what to admire more, their glibness of tongue, or their skill in lying. Gradually, I began to hate them.

In totally unrelated news, Hurricane Helen hit the east coast of America, and hit it hard. There are already 92 confirmed dead, with the damage estimated at $26 billion.

Oh wait, hold on a second. I’m getting word that this is totally related news, because the Tennessee National Guard is literally in Israel right now, and is thus unable to provide any relief. That’s true of the Government institutions that are still here in America, also serving Israel. 

Reports from those on the ground say that there is zero help from any Government agency. (((Mayorkas))) has dug through your his pockets, but he just can’t find the funds to help these rural White People who have had their houses destroyed.

At this point in time, the proper response to someone posting “both sides” shit is a happy merchant meme. It’s not possible that someone could be too stupid to understand this. There’s some other agenda at play.

The lowest estimations for Ukraine “aid,” are well over $150 billion at this point. The lowest estimations for Israel “aid” are well over fourty billion, and over $310 billion since its inception. Take your “I don’t care about Middle Eastern Brown People” bit back to Tel Aviv and go fuck yourself.

UPDATE: Here’s some of FEMA’s “leadership.” It truly is shocking how Tel Aviv University alumni are entirely disinterested in helping rural White People. Actually more than disinterested, intentionally blocking the organic aid response.

However, I do have to address the technical performance of Yahweh’s Sling. Because we might have to pump the breaks on this one. The videos of missiles striking Israeli military targets are reversed! What you are ackshually seeing are brave Iron Yarmaluke missiles intercepting the evil terrorist missiles. You know that, because those missiles make sure to first explode on the ground, then reform like the terminator and fly into the air.

Needless to say, that never happened. In case you’re retarded, I’ve isolated a video where you can see a batch of missiles about to hit Israel. Only one lonesome missile is intercepted.

Starting around sixteen seconds, you see an interceptor missile fly up into the bunch, and it hits the intended target around 21 seconds. At the same time, you can also see two interceptor missiles on the right side of the video go on break like the Black Womxyn at the DMV and fly away. Then you can see the remaining missiles land in various parts of the city. I bring this up, because a common cope for the Iron Yarmaluke – and related defense systems – failing is the claim that they only intercept missiles that are going to hit the tip of the nearest rabbi penis or whatever. Actually, they tried to intercept these missiles, they just failed. This is not that system’s first spectacular failure.

Despite what you might hear from The Ghost of Tel Aviv, Iran and Hezbollah’s missile attacks are effective. That’s why Israel throws their own citizens in jail for publishing the results of the attacks, because they, like their Zionist counterpart in Ukraine, enjoy fighting the war in the headlines more than the frontlines.

Speaking of which, how’s that Lebanon invasion going, Schlomo?

The Cradle:

Hezbollah fighters continue to batter Israeli forces near the Lebanese border, ahead of an imminent ground invasion which the Israeli army and media outlets falsely claim has already begun.

Hezbollah said in a statement early on 2 October that it thwarted an attempt by Israeli soldiers to penetrate Lebanese territory.

“In defense of Lebanon and its people, the fighters of the Islamic Resistance, at dawn on 2-10-2024, confronted an Israeli enemy infantry force that attempted to infiltrate the town of Odaisseh from the direction of Khallet al-Mahafer, clashing with it, inflicting casualties, and forcing it to retreat,” Hezbollah said on Wednesday morning.

According to Hebrew telegram channels, at least 20 Israeli soldiers were wounded and two confirmed killed by the Hezbollah fighters.

Al Mayadeen’s correspondent in south Lebanon said “dozens of elite [Israeli] forces were injured, and their screams echoed across the ambush area.” Several Hebrew media outlets reported a difficult “security incident” on the northern border, and strict army censorship has been imposed over the event.

I don’t get it. These brave Israeli soldiers have years of experience killing babies. How could this not have prepared them for urban combat against adults?

“In a difficult event being monitored, Israeli special forces encountered in southern Lebanon a Radwan force under the cover of human shields that –

Jaime, pull up the tweet please.

The Jew cries out “you’re using human shields” as they use human shields.

Several other attacks were announced by Hezbollah on 2 October, including rocket and artillery bombardment on Israeli forces stationed at the Misgav Am border site.

The Lebanese resistance carried out several cross-border operations on 1 October, targeting Israeli troop gatherings and concentrations of soldiers stationed near the border in preparation for a ground operation in southern Lebanon.

The Israeli army, as well as western and Hebrew media, claimed that Israeli forces have already begun “localized raids” targeting Hezbollah “infrastructure” inside Lebanese territory. Journalists on the border, as well as UNIFIL and the Lebanese army, confirmed that no ground operation has begun as of yet. 

The Israeli army released on 1 October images of its soldiers walking around in older Hezbollah tunnels which have been out of use for years.

“The Zionist enemy army published pictures and videos inside what it called storage sites and tunnels for Hezbollah, within the framework of its psychological warfare and false claims … we confirm that these pictures and video are very old and have no relation to any current military operations at the Lebanese border with occupied Palestine,” Hezbollah’s media relations office said in a statement on Tuesday.

The Israeli Diaper Force ran around some long abandoned empty tunnels and claimed this was some great victory. Then they engaged in real fight and got smoked. Sad. Many such cases.

By the way, this is indeed confirmed by the Times of Israel. There are at least eight dead, and Hezbollah has claimed to have destroyed three tanks, possibly roasting the crews. As of time of writing, the claimed death toll is over thirty.

But I have to circle back to the Iron Kippah, because there are some people who actually believe that the Yids have invented the world’s first missile defense system with a 100% interception rate, or even an 80% interception rate. The first thing that people need to know about missile defense systems is that they are a joke. More accurately, the propaganda claims made about their efficacy is a joke.

Israel themselves claim that their Iron Yarmaluke system stops 90% of Hezbollah and Hamas rockets. Then you read the fine print, and they admit that two thirds of them weren’t going to hit anything anyway, but they still count these as stopped. In other words, if they didn’t have the Iron Dome, they would still have “stopped” 67% of the rockets fired at them, simply because they were going to miss anyway.

Of the last third that would have hit something, they claim that they shoot down about two thirds of those. No evidence is ever provided, but even if we take their numbers at face value, their interception rate is about 65-70% of the Home Depot rockets that were actually going to hit something.

No, Israel did not let these missiles through on purpose. They have no ability to stop every, or even the majority, of ballistic missiles, because no country on earth possesses the ability to stop anything more than a miniscule percentage of ballistic missiles with their air defense systems.

Let’s see how Ukraine’s air defenses have fared.

The Giardian:

Ukraine, which has been constantly attacked by Russian missiles and drones since the start of the full-scale invasion, released its own interception rates in August. Its success proportion would be lower than Israel’s, partly because the length of the war has meant it has run out of some types of short-range interceptor missiles.

Ukraine’s commander-in-chief, Oleksandr Syrskyi, said that while 63% of drones were intercepted and 67% of cruise missiles were stopped, that dropped to 4.5% when Russian ballistic missiles were concerned.

Do you ever wonder why we don’t install anti-missile missiles on aircraft? If they worked, that would make aircraft immune to incoming missiles. Unfortunately, they do not work against high speed missiles, because it’s technically impossible to consistently hit such a small target traveling at Mach 3, let alone Mach 10, as is the case with the Iranian hypersonic missiles.

Even against very low speed cruise missiles and drones, the interception rate for Ukraine is two thirds at best. The Iranian Shahed drones are piston props with claimed top speeds of a whopping 185 km/h.

They’re also not really drones, as they don’t have any sensors on them the vast majority of the time. They’re good old fashioned cruise missiles that fly directly to a known static target and then explode.

Wikipedia:

The U.S. Army unclassified worldwide equipment guide states that the Shahed 136 design supports an aerial reconnaissance option,[18][19] although no cameras were noted in the Geran-2 in Russian service.[20]

…

The classification of the Shahed 136 as a loitering munition has been disputed due to an apparent lack of loitering capability.[115] In January 2023, the Royal United Services Institute, a British defense and security think tank, called into question the classification of the Shahed 136 as a loitering munition.[17] RUSI noted that the Shahed 136 had mainly been used for point-to-point suicide missions similar to cruise missiles, rather than loitering around a target area before striking a target. However, RUSI also stated that the Shahed 136 may have been used during the attacks on the MT Mercer Street and Pacific Zircon, hinting at the existence of a loitering munition variant even if the original Shahed 136 does not have that capability.[17] An Oil Companies International Marine Forum report assessing the Shahed 136 attacks on those ships stated that the wreckage of the drones used in the attacks did not produce any sensors or a laser seeking equipment found on traditional loitering munitions. However, the report also noted, based on photographic evidence, that the drone that struck the Pacific Zircon was equipped with a GNSS antenna.[116]

The Wikipedia author who wrote that last sentence is an idiot. A Shahed 136 needs an antenna for satellite navigation just like every other cruise missile. There’s no “however” about this. If it weren’t a cruise missile, then it wouldn’t need a GPS/GNSS antenna.

The Shahed 136 is largely what people are referring to when they talk about Iranian “drones” being effective in Ukraine, and it’s part of what has caused such confusion over the “new” effect that “drones” are having striking long range fixed targets. That’s because most people who write about military matters have no idea what they’re talking about, so they see a prop on an aircraft and assume that it’s a TOTALLY DIFFERENT THING, instead of the exact same thing with an appropriate propulsion method. 

From this video.

Shahed “drones” are simply the world’s slowest and cheapest cruise missiles, powered up to a maximum speed of 185 kmph by a 50 horsepower motor. They can’t even fly as low as you would want for terrain masking. That requires accurate terrain mapping data and a ground clearance radar that’s not practical on such a crude, cheap cruise missile. That’s why you can find footage of Ukrainian aircraft shooting them down at close to 1,000 ft altitude.

Here’s another video of these things. Please notice how slow these things are, as well as the fact that they aren’t even really hugging the ground, only somewhat low altitude.

I say all this, because these things have made successful attacks hundreds of kilometers into Ukraine. This journey takes them multiple hours of somewhat low altitude flying at maybe 185km/h. Despite this, even a Ukrainian Government famous for inflating their numerical success doesn’t claim to shoot down more than two thirds of them.

Some of that is electronic warfare.

But mostly it’s aircraft. That includes civilian piston props with the passenger carrying a 30 cal rifle.

ZOGkraine has already said that they’ll be keeping their new F-16’s way back from the frontlines, using them primarily to shoot down Russian/Iranian cruise missiles.

Business Insider:

He said its small number of aircraft and few pilots would mean Ukraine has to prioritize avoiding losses, so it can fly the F-16s as long as possible.

This, he told BI, means the F-16s will need to be “well-protected” while on the ground and deployed mostly for operations “well within” Ukrainian airspace, where they are safest.

If Ukraine’s F-16s do get close to the front lines, they will need to stay at “very” low altitudes to hide from Russian radar, said Justin Bronk, a Russia and air-warfare expert at the UK’s Royal United Services Institute.

“Getting closer to the front lines than 40kms will carry significantly increased risk,” he said.

Marina Miron, a postdoctoral researcher at the War Studies Department at King’s College London, said Ukraine needs to set up a network of radar stations, reinforced hangars, a supply of spare parts, refueling systems, and quality airfields.

“So many associated issues need to be sorted out,” she told the Associated Press.

Flying low to avoid radar, just like the F-35 will in real combat.

Kyiv Independent:

Ukraine’s Air Force used F-16 jets as part of its defense against Russia’s mass missile and drone attack on Aug. 26, President Volodymyr Zelensky confirmed during a press conference on Aug. 27.

Russia targeted 15 of Ukraine’s 24 oblasts on Aug. 26, launching over 200 missiles and drones as part of the largest-ever aerial attack against Ukraine.

Strikes hit several civilian, energy, and fuel facilities, including a dam in Kyiv, part of the Kyiv Hydroelectric Power Plant, killing seven people and injuring at least 47 others.

Ukraine downed 102 missiles and 99 drones of the 127 missiles and 109 drones launched by Russia during the morning attack.

If the Ukrainians are using their fighters to shoot down cruise missiles, yet only have a (claimed) 65% success rate, how was it that The Great Satan managed to shoot down 97+% of the cruise missiles Iran fired at the Jew Ethnostate in their symbolic April attack? The answer is simply that they were told by Iran weeks in advance exactly when the attack was planned, so they launched a huge number of fighter aircraft into the air, presumably along with AWACS to find the cruise missiles, and shot them down.

USA Today (April):

The attack is an escalation of the conflict between Israel and Iran and could spark a military escalation that could involve the U.S. and other countries and alter the Israel-Hamas war in the Gaza Strip.

U.S. and European military forces intercepted more than 80 uncrewed one-way attack aerial vehicles and at least six ballistic missiles, the U.S. Central Command said Sunday.

Times of Israel:

The Israeli military on Sunday released footage (above) showing Israeli Air Force fighter jets downing some of the estimated 170 drones and 30 cruise missiles fired from Iran at Israel in an overnight attack.

The Israeli military on Sunday released footage (above) showing Israeli Air Force fighter jets downing some of the estimated 170 drones and 30 cruise missiles fired from Iran at Israel in an overnight attack.

All the drones and cruise missiles were downed outside of the country’s airspace by the IAF and its allies, including the United States, United Kingdom, Jordan, France and others, according to the Israel Defense Forces.

In addition to the drones and cruise missiles, Iran launched more than 120 ballistic missiles at the country, with the vast majority of them being downed by Israel’s long-range Arrow air defense system. US officials said American aircraft carriers and a patriot system in Iraq shot down 4-to-7 of the ballistic missiles.

A few missiles managed to bypass Israel’s air defenses, striking the Nevatim Airbase in southern Israel, causing minor damage to infrastructure, according to the IDF.

CNN:

US officials said more than 70 drones and three ballistic missiles were intercepted by US Navy ships and military aircraft, without giving details of exactly what defenses were used to bring down the projectiles.

US warplanes also shot down Iranian ordnance, Liebermann reported. While it was not revealed from where those US jets operated, there are US Navy aircraft carriers and land-based aircraft well within range of the region.

Let’s do a little bit of math here. The absolute shortest distance between any part of Iran and any part of Israel is just over 1,000 km. The maximum claimed speed of the Shahed 136 is just 185 km/h, or almost exactly three kilometers per minute. That means that these fighter planes had an uninterrupted five hours and thirty minutes – bare minimum – with which to attack a slow, non-evading target aircraft that had no means of defending itself or fighting back. It should be no surprise that they were feasted upon by fighters.

The self-congratulatory cocksucking that ZOG did after this “achievement” was so absurd that I considered writing a longer article about just that. Suffice to say, had they not shot down 99% of these cruise missiles, that would have been a failure beyond imagination. This turkey shoot was the aerial equivalent to an entire mechanized brigade coming across a long line of totally unprotected trucks stuck in a traffic jam. Failing to take them all out would have been embarrassing.

In no way, shape, or form does this invalidate the concept of cruise missiles, slow or otherwise. That we have some aircraft that cannot defend themselves is perfectly acceptable. Cargo planes and troop transport helicopters have no ability to defend themselves from fighter planes. They don’t need to. We use our fighters to sweep the area, engaging with theirs when necessary. We also don’t announce our attack weeks in advance to our enemy. 

However, while it makes little difference to Israel, since their vassals pay for all their things, even an intercepted missile can more than pay for itself. A Shahed 136 drone has a 50hp engine, and a ~100lbs warhead. The resources that you must expend in order to shoot one down may be far greater than what the attacking country spent to launch them, when all factors such as manufacturing and logistics are considered.

This might already be happening in Ukraine. After Ukraine heavily invested in SHORAD systems, at least some of the Shahed cruise missiles were programmed to fly at 15k feet. The cost of a high altitude anti-air missile is almost certainly far more than a small, piston prop cruise missile, so you’re damned if you don’t shoot them down, and damned if you do.

Forbes:

“It is necessary to increase the flight altitude by a certain amount, so that machine guns and MZA MTFs [mobile air defence groups] cannot reach them,” says Russian Engineer. “Only interception by missiles, both from air defense systems and from aviation, remains. Which in general plays into our hands, since the increased consumption of anti-aircraft missiles reduces the effectiveness of air defense.”

Stocks of air defence missiles like Patriot and Iris are extremely limited, and are conserved for ballistic missiles and other major threats rather than small drones. So Ukraine has changed tactics.

These missions carry some risk. The first American-supplied F-16 loss in Ukraine occurred during a major Russian attack, though not as a direct result of enemy action. The details are not known, but it is likely that pilot Oleksiy Mes, callsign ‘Moonfish’, was killed by friendly fire. Deconfliction is not a trivial challenge when enemy drones and cruise missiles are sharing airspace in a fast-moving situation.

The cost of each Patriot missile is a staggering $4 million. The cost of each IRIS-T SL missile is more than $600,000. Partly that’s due to graft, corruption, and generous profit margins. However, any anti-air missile is required to be of a certain size, speed, and maneuverability in order to hit even slow and non-maneuvering aircraft above 15k feet, especially if said aircraft is not directly overhead. That combination is never going to be cheap.

1,000 lbs patriot missile being launched.

All of this assumes a 100% success rate for each missile, which is also ridiculous. Remember, when the US Air Force bravely fired missiles at those middle schooler’s balloons? They had an 80% hit rate from in close. I love missiles as much as the next guy, but I don’t pretend that they have perfect accuracy, especially against aircraft. If they managed a 50% hit rate, you’re looking at $8 million per kill for the Patriot missiles, and ~$1.3 million per kill for the IRIS missiles. Again, the cost of the Shahed 136 is somewhere between $20k-60k.

Alternatively, you could launch a MiG-29 and maneuver until you’re in position to launch an R-73. That’s going to use up approximately 100x the fuel of the Shahed drone, and those short range IR missiles still cost ten times more than the missile. This is an unsustainable long term strategy, no matter what kind of cool music is playing in the background.

Which brings us back to the Giardian cope piece about how Israel totally has the ability to shoot down all the Iranian ballistic missiles, they just didn’t because they’re 200 IQ supergeniuses and you’re too dumb to understand otherwise.

In April, a former financial adviser to the IDF chief of staff said that an Arrow missile typically costs $3.5m (£2.8m) a time, and David’s Sling interceptors $1m (£800,000). Eliminating 100 or more missiles would easily run into hundreds of millions of dollars – though the missiles themselves will have cost Iran £80,000 each or more.

By the lowest estimations, it costs Israel we the taxpayer ten times as much to launch an interception missile against the Iranian ballistic missiles as it does for them to fire them. Let’s pair that with the pathetic interception rate that we saw with our own eyes, and reason that Israel matches Ukraine’s 4.5% hit rate against ballistic missiles with a similar 5% hit rate. If those are Arrow missiles, then it costs $70 million per $80k Iranian missile intercepted, a ratio of 875:1.

They have roughly the same expense ratio for their Iron Yarmaluke missiles against the Home Depot rockets that Hezbollah and Hamas launch at them, and that doesn’t even take into consideration the extremely expensive supporting equipment.

Haaretz (Jan 7th, 2024):

The Hezbollah missile attack on Mt. Meron on Saturday morning hit a strategic Israeli airbase. The IDF admitted on Sunday that the strikes caused damage to the facility and that it is investigating the incident.

On Saturday, the Israeli Air Force put the “Sky Dew” (“Tal Shamaim”) system into use, following a year and half of it being inoperable due to technical malfunction. The system is supposed to provide Israel with long-range, early warning of aerial threats upon its territory. The radar, mounted on an aerostat in the north of the country, is supposed to warn of the launch of cruise missiles and low-altitude drones held by Iranian forces and pro-Iranian militias in Iraq, Syria, and Lebanon.

To be clear, this particular attack was carried out primarily with ATGMs.

But Israel nipped that problem in the bud with the installation of their massively expensive (to us) Sky Dew airborne radar system. Take that Hezbollah!

The National News (May 17th, 2024):

Israel has suffered a substantial setback to its surveillance capabilities after a Hezbollah drone struck a $230 million advanced radar detection airship in its deepest attack into the country to date.

Israel’s military has confirmed that the Sky Dew blimp, which can spot targets up to 250km away, had been damaged in an attack by a kamikaze drone. Local reports suggest the blimp was shot down.

Israel has been developing the Sky Dew project since 2022, giving its forces an advanced observation system for drones and cruise missiles striking from Iran and Syria, as well as Lebanon, by picking up smaller targets that are harder to detect in northern Israel’s valleys.

The balloon also has the key advantage of remaining airborne at low cost, without requiring fuel or crew replacement, whereas surveillance aircraft cost $40,000 an hour to operate.

Who wants to bet that Hezbollah has a higher success rate against balloons than the US Military?

Picture does not do the enormity of this thing justice.

The reason these things exist is because it is impossible to see aircraft or missiles hiding through terrain masking unless you have a direct line of sight to them. The only way to get direct line of sight is to elevate the radar, which is why AWACS exist. The Sky Dew system, a joint US and Israel development, is basically like an AWACS, but retarded. The justification for a static system was alleged low operating costs, which means little when the purchase cost is $230 million, and it can be destroyed by 10k loitering munition.

But that capability has either been severely damaged or destroyed after Hezbollah launched a one-way attack drone that flew 33km undetected into Israeli airspace and struck the balloon close to the town of Tiberias.

The aircraft was probably an Iran-designed Ababil carrying a 40kg warhead travelling up to 370kph with a range of 120km.

The Ababil is basically a camera guided ATGM with extended range. One glance at it gives us a rough cost estimation, and it’s not $230 million. There’s no way it’s even $23 thousand. 

Rear Admiral Daniel Hagari, Israel’s military spokesman, confirmed that a Hezbollah drone had scored a direct hit on Sky Dew but added there were no casualties and that it “had no impact to the IDF’s aerial situational awareness capability in the area”.

Jaime, do we have a picture of the non-existent impact to the Israeli aerial situational awareness?

Thank you, Jaime.

Hezbollah confirmed in a statement that “a number of attack drones” had struck an Israeli airbase near Tiberias. “It accurately hit its designated targets and achieved what it wanted from this limited operation,” a spokesman said.

Hezbollah also used its air-to-surface missiles for the first time on Thursday, attacking a military target near the northern Israeli town of Metulla.

Hezbollah also regularly succeeds with their good old fashioned short range “ballistic missiles” that are really just unguided rockets.

NPR:

Some experts warn that Hezbollah’s arsenal could push the system past its limits.

The Iranian-backed group has been conducting increasingly brazen attacks using exploding drones and low-flying missiles that Iron Dome has struggled to intercept. And last week, Hezbollah published a 10-minute-long surveillance video from an unmanned aerial vehicle that had slipped past multiple Iron Dome launchers. Among the sensitive locations it filmed was a secure manufacturing facility belonging to the Israeli defense firm Rafael — the company that makes the missile defense system.

The implication was clear: Hezbollah has Iron Dome in its sights. And this could be just a small taste of what’s to come, says Tom Karako, director of the Missile Defense Project at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. Unlike the Palestinian group Hamas, Hezbollah is believed to have a large arsenal of precision-guided weapons that it could fire in a war with Israel.

“Look, there’s not enough Iron Domes in the world to contend with the reported 100,000 or so rockets that Hezbollah may have,” he warns.

A new conflict in Lebanon would challenge Iron Dome in another way: Israel doesn’t have an infinite number of interceptor missiles in its stockpile. Haimovich says that since Oct. 7, Israel has fended off attacks from every direction. As it has done so, it has been expending missiles faster than they can be manufactured.

“After eight months of thousands of interceptions, it’s a big challenge,” he says.

Karako says that if there is a broader war with Hezbollah, it’s unlikely that Iron Dome can provide the kind of protection that Israelis have grown accustomed to.

Here’s what the Hezbollah rockets look like. They cost an estimated $400 at most.

Here’s an Iron Kippah missile. The official cost of each individual iron dome missile is around $50k. 

Even assuming a $40k cost per missile, they’re one hundred times more expensive than the simple rockets that Hezbollah and Hamas make. Israel admits that they only actually intercept around two thirds of the rockets, and who knows how many missiles they fire at each rocket. The point is that these dumb rockets are bleeding out the limited Israeli stockpile of anti-missile missiles, and if Israel wasn’t a total parasite and Hezbollah weren’t a resource poor militia, the facade of Iron Kippah efficacy would have faded long ago. Their other missile defense systems are even worse, as we saw with their near total failure in this recent attack.

In short, no one has ever invented a ballistic missile interception system that worked pretty much at all. No one has ever invented a system that can reliably intercept even the slowest piston prop cruise missiles, or crappiest of Home Depot ballistic missiles. Even if we accept the “90% shoot down” figures as accurate, and they’re not, it still costs Israel multiple orders of magnitude more resources to shoot these missiles down than it does for them to launch them at you.

So no, Israel is not happy that the Goyim in the Middle East are firing missiles at them, and no, they don’t magically have the ability to intercept the ballistic missiles, nor the infinite stockpiles – no matter how many cheques Uncle CSAM writes for them – to intercept the short range rockets and slow cruise missiles, which they can’t reliably intercept anyway.

Which is good, because fuck Israel.

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  1. The US government’s decision to prioritise jews over its own founding stock can only be described with one word – treason. Note that I said decision. I’m not one of the countless number of fools who are invoking Hanlon’s razor and chalking it up to incompetence. FEMA isn’t just not helping, they are actively preventing volunteers from rendering assistance, while simultaneously aiding and abetting the demographic replacement of White America. The fact that this isn’t causing widespread civil unrest is just a tiny bit black pilling.

    The government’s open contempt for Whites is on full display……what exactly will it take?

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    1. The six millionth example of treason.

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      1. I find it funny that people are shocked that so many people have embraced the “nothing ever happens” meme.

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