Israel is turning to a high-tech weapon to stop a low-tech threat.
Here s What You Need To Remember: Kites, balloons and condoms carrying incendiary materials wouldn’t be the most difficult challenge. Depending on how powerful the laser is, the beam needs to stay focused on the target for a certain period of time.
Israel is turning to a high-tech weapon to stop a low-tech threat.
Kites, balloons and even inflated condoms, launched across the Gaza border into southern Israel by Hamas and other Palestinian groups, have become a major problem for the Israeli military. Cheap to make and simple to launch, and fitted with incendiary devices, explosives or even flaming rags, they have set thousands of acres of Israeli farmland and parkland ablaze. Yet Israel’s sophisticated Iron Dome missile defense system is helpless: its 10-foot-long interceptor-missiles are designed to shoot down battlefield rockets and artillery shells, not kites.
A Kuwaiti newspaper claims Israeli F-35s have flown over Iran.
Here s What You Need To Remember: The Israeli Air Force (IAF) has a well-earned reputation for boldness, but there is a difference between being bold and foolhardy. IAF pilots and planners have barely had time to acclimate to a fifth-generation aircraft different from the fourth-generation F-15s and F-16s they currently operate. Even the U.S. military is struggling to fix numerous bugs in the F-35.
A Kuwaiti newspaper created stir years back when it reported that Israel s new F-35 stealth fighters had flown over Iran. The fighters crossed Syrian airspace into Iraqi airspace, including to Iran, where they carried out reconnaissance missions and targets in the areas of Bandar Abbas, Isfahan and Shiraz, flying at a high altitude over other sites suspected of a relationship with Iran s nuclear program, according to an informed source quoted by the newspaper
An Aircraft Carrier Fire Has China Doubting India’s Naval Might
The blaze was extinguished, but not before an Indian Navy lieutenant commander, who led the firefighting effort, was overcome by fumes and later died in hospital.
Here s What You Need To Remember: The Indian military certainly deserves its share of criticism. It has suffered numerous accidents over the past decade, including a corvette that sank after a collision with a merchant vessel in 2006. Development of new weapons, such as the Arjun tank and the Tejas fighter, has become notorious for delays, cost overruns and technical problems.
India’s only aircraft carrier suffered a fire that left one sailor dead.
Iran's missile program has mostly copied other nations' designs and favored quantity over quality, but there are signs that this approach has changed over the past decade.
The F-22 is so advanced its existence is almost unnecessary.
Here s What You Need To Remember: The F-22 was built for near-peer competition at a time when it had no peers.
The F-22 has been the world’s most formidable air superiority fighter since it first entered service in 2005. Although the Raptor has yet to kill a target in anger, aviation specialists almost unanimously agree that it can outclass any opponent, foreign or domestic. The only hard limitation on its ability to kill appears to be the number of missiles that it can carry.
But what if the F-22 had never been? Like all advanced technological systems, the Raptor has suffered from hiccups; in 2009 these hiccups were severe enough to excuse the ending of the production line. What if those hiccups had been more severe, or if the United States had decided earlier that the Raptor simply wasn’t in its strategic interest?