Can they use the Jewish space lasers instead?
this post was submitted on 15 Mar 2026
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"Critically low" is still too many
Good?
Israel is also an aggressive, dishonest, genocidal ethnostate, supplied by the most overgrown military apparatus in human history.
Citizens in Israel and the U.S. have an obligation to change our governments and societies for the sake of the entire world. Until then, pearl-clutching over justified blowback deserves no sympathy.
Forgive me if I'm wrong but isn't part of the Christian Nationalists crazy view about armagedon is that Israel gets blown up? I think that is part of the plan.
Well, sucks to start a war without the necessary means.
It was a 3 day special operation.
We've had quite a recent history of nations thinking they will have a quick, easy offensive and be done with it.
Americans are running low on jobs, food, money, health care, education, legal due process, civil rights, and now self respect. A lot of which is due to zionists effing everything up. I hope they have zero interceptors and have to pursue peace instead.
The amount of money that we have wasted at the behest of Israel is staggering. Trillions of dollars. Every single dollar stolen from our people, to advance the interests of an 'ally' who has literally attacked our soldiers.
It's not wasted, it's USAs forward military base, and an invaluable attraction for religious fanatics.
We knew very well that the countries defined by the super powers after WWII would always be in conflict. They were designed that way purposefully, tribes were split apart and mortal enemies were mixed together very carefully to boost conflict.
Like the post office, this government service is costly. BUT it's only costly for the taxpayers, you see, it's fantastic business for the military industrial complex and their investors. Guess who provides loans to those same businesses?
It is a mystery, back to work
This seems like the thing you check before you attack a world power so you can bully your neighbors and steal their homes, but what do I know?
I plead for journalists to actually inform themselves about the subject before they write.... :o
Israel has other ways to defend against Iranian missiles during the war, including via fighter jets, but the interceptors are among the most effective defensive weapons against long-range fire. Its Iron Dome missile defense system is designed to repel more short-range fire.
They speak of Iron Dome (short range, for slow rockets from inside the atmosphere) and THAAD (high altitude, for fast missiles re-entering from space) interchangeably. And they even mention fighter aircraft, which cannot do jack in either case.
The currently relevant scenarios:
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Hezbollah shoots unguided rockets at Israel -> Iron Dome intercepts maybe 15% of them (if the trajectory looks dangerous enough), and this costs about 10 times as much as the whole rocket salvo.
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Iran shoots an IRBM at Israel -> the IRBM splits up in space into cluster munitions -> Israel can intercept the MIRV bus (cluster munition housing), but it's empty at the time of getting intercepted. Not much point. And doing it would cost at least 10 times as much as the incoming missile did.
A missile defense system, in this case, cannot do jack either. For this type of attack, defense would have a point if one was expecting to get nuked, becuause a nuclear-armed reentry vehicle cannot be made arbitrarily small, and the cost of leaving it un-intercepted would be extremely tragic.
In case of these projectiles, which are conventional and unguided in their final stage, one has to simply absorb the hits. This is the cost of war. And try to find the other guy's launchers, and try to prevent them from producing more.
And I'm not shedding any tears for Israel in this case. It definitely sucks to be bombed with cluster munitions, but they started this round of fighting, killed most people who they might have negotiated with, and aren't even new to using forbidden kinds of weapons (e.g. cluster munitions made of white phosphorus).
fighter jets are used to intercept shaheds
Shaheds are drones and not missiles though. That means they are much slower
On the face of it that makes the 10x costs for defence vs attack above look cheap
Are we supposed to feel sorry for them now?
I found the antisemite! /jk
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Oh no the consequences of my actions!
You sow the wind, you reap the whirlwind.
Wow, they didn't stop to check that before starting a war? That seems ill advised.
they count on their vasal states to give them more
How many interceptors does Gaza or Lebanon have left?
It's OK they can use children instead. Or something.
Well that's too bad.
Anyways.. Anyone have a suggestions what to have for dinner?
Palestinians have amazing gastronomy. learn to cook some of their stuff. I make about 20kg of pittas and hummus every week for a mutual aid and costs me about 8$ per week. their food is amazing and cheap as fuck.
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That's okay, Americans will buy more while their infrastructure crumbles.
As long as they don't have to give up anything basic for their people, like education, or Healthcare... wait...
Rip
So, basically attacking a country that has been preparing for this war for 20 years might turn out to bite them in the ass?
Remember, USA had to go in, because Israel was going to attack Iran nomatter what.
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And this will be used as nothing but an excuse to send Israel and arms manufacturers more money unfortunately.
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