CNN anchor takes Israeli spokeswoman to task

So where is this anti-missile system the US brags about?

All warships are equipped with a Phalanx system. [link to en.wikipedia.org]

Why not use it on the border?

Where are the patriot batteries that took out the scuds purportedly so well in the Iraqi campain?

a katusha rocket is just like i bullet . its not easy to stop .

Wrong!

A bullet is a guided munition fired generally in a straight line.

A katusha rocket is fired into the air in an arc to get maximum distance on an unguided trajectory.


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I think you missed the point, Wul. The point is to MOVE THE BORDER and grab some land and water.

i have seen them on tv . and i think they are small . if you would hit them with a patriot you wil only change the course of the katusha and most of the time it cause more havoc .

No 11632, I understand implicitly what Israel is up to!

But thanks anyway...

Keep on clutching at straws....

no comprende wul ?

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Wul only speaks one language...

Ignernt

Shoot down a Katyusha...

That's a knee-slapper, that...

How many Jews have died from the the 100's of rockets sent their way? I think more Jews have died from accidental head butts against the wailing wall, then from the rockets. Perhaps the Jews should focus more on padding the wailing wall, then creating war(s).

a goal keeper on a ship is a different thing wul . because thats a missle defence system . katushas are fired all over the place so you most need 5000 goalkeepers ????
so dont give me that straw crap will ya ?

You are stupid.

Read:

World's First Ray Gun Shoots Down Missile (Katyusha rocket)

Redondo Beach - June 7, 2000 - TRW, the U.S. Army and the Israel Ministry of Defence (IMoD) have blazed a new trail in the history of defensive warfare by using the Army's Tactical High Energy Laser/Advanced Concept Technology Demonstrator (THEL/ACTD), the world's first high-energy laser weapon system designed for operational use, to shoot down a rocket carrying a live warhead.

The successful intercept and destruction of a occurred on June 6 at approximately 3:48 p.m. EDT at the Army's High Energy Laser Systems Test Facility (HELSTF), White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico.

The shoot-down was achieved during a high-power laser tracking test conducted as part of the ongoing THEL/ACTD integration process.

"We've just turned science fiction into reality," said Lt. Gen. John Costello, Commanding General, U.S. Army Space & Missile Defense Command.

"This compelling demonstration of THEL's defensive capabilities proves that directed energy weapon systems have the potential to play a significant role in defending U.S. national security interests worldwide."

"This shoot-down is an exciting and very important development for the people of Israel," said Major General Dr. Isaac Ben-Israel, Director of MAFAT, Israel Ministry of Defence.

"With this success, THEL/ACTD has taken the crucial first step to help protect the communities along our northern border against the kind of devastating rocket attacks we've suffered recently."

"The THEL/ACTD shoot-down is a watershed event for a truly revolutionary weapon," said Tim Hannemann, executive vice president and general manager, TRW Space & Electronics Group, the THEL/ACTD system prime contractor.

"It also provides a very positive opportunity for our customers to consider developing more mobile versions of THEL." Any future THEL developments would benefit from continued testing and performance evaluations of the THEL/ACTD's current subsystems, he added.

For this critical first test of THEL/ACTD's defensive capabilities, an armed Katyusha rocket was fired from a rocket launcher placed at a site in White Sands Missile Range.

Seconds later, the THEL/ACTD, located several miles away at HELSTF, detected the launch with its fire control radar, tracked the streaking rocket with its high precision pointer tracker system, then engaged the rocket with its high- energy chemical laser.

Within seconds, the 10-foot-long, 5-inch-diameter rocket exploded.

According to Hannemann, the THEL/ACTD shoot-down represents significant advancements in the maturity of engineering technologies used to design and build deployable directed energy weapon systems.

"In February 1996, as part of the Nautilus laser test program, TRW, the Army and the IMoD used the Mid Infrared Advanced Chemical Laser (MIRACL) and the SeaLite Beam Director installed at HELSTF to intercept and destroy a Katyusha rocket," he said.

"Those tests established high-energy laser lethality against short-range rocket threats, but we had to use a large facility-based laser and beam control system to perform the test." By contrast, he added, THEL/ACTD was designed and produced as a stand-alone defensive weapon system.

Its primary subsystems have been packaged in several transportable, semi-trailer-sized shipping containers, allowing it to be deployed to other test or operational locations.

The U.S. currently has no weapon systems capable of protecting soldiers or military assets involved in regional conflicts against short-range rocket attacks.

Conventional missile-based defense systems, such as the Army's Theater High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) and Patriot Advanced Capability -3 (PAC-3), are designed to defend against longer range threats such as Scud missiles.

By comparison, tactical directed energy systems such as THEL/ACTD send out "bullets" at the speed of light, allowing them to intercept and destroy "last minute" or low-flying threats such as rockets, mortars or cruise missiles on a very short timeline.

"It's pretty hard to run from a laser," said Hannemann.

The THEL/ACTD was designed, developed and produced by a TRW-led team of U.S. and Israeli contractors for the U.S. Army Space & Missile Defense Command, Huntsville, Ala., and the Israel Ministry of Defence.

Requirements for the system have been driven in part by Israel, which needs to protect civilians living in towns and communities along its northern border against rocket attacks by terrorist guerrillas.

TRW has been engaged in laser research and development since the early 1960s. The company produces solid-state lasers for defense and industrial applications, and designs and develops a variety of high-energy chemical lasers for space, ground and airborne missile defense applications.

GO HERE. READ THIS. CRY.
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Going by your comprehension of English, I doubt very much weather you could understand the task at hand.

By the way "missle" is spelled M I S S I L E

i read TEST . its not so easy as we all think .

Golly...I stand corrected...

Of course the things are the size of "several transportable, semi-trailer-sized shipping containers", so they are not really 'portable' yet, now are they?...

Let me know when they can be deployed in theatre...

Pacifists.

Evil Israel. It's shocking what war criminals they are and it's shocking that jews defend the indefensible; obviously no conscience whatsoever. It is sickening!

BTW Does anyone else thing that Olmert looks like a walking corpse? Very appropriate!

Going by your comprehension of English, I doubt very much weather you could understand the task at hand.
no comprende again wul .
you no fuck all about weapon systems. thats why you give these cheap shot answers !

Tuesday, 5 November, 2002, 23:53 GMT
US military scores laser success
Katyusha rocket
Katyusha rockets are used to target Israel
The US army has, for the first time, shot down an artillery shell in flight using a high-powered laser weapon.

Tactical high energy lasers have the capacity to change the face of the battlefield

US Army Lt Gen Joseph Cosumano
The weapon system tracked and locked on to the shell, before firing a beam of light at the projectile and hitting it.

The US Army's Space and Missile Defence Command said that "seconds later, at a point well short of its intended destination, the projectile was destroyed".

The Mobile Tactical High Energy Laser (MTHEL) is being developed by the TRW Corporation for use by the US military and the Israeli Defence Ministry.

Two years ago, it successfully shot down a Katyusha rocket, but in Monday's test it managed to destroy a shell moving at a higher speed.

The test took place at the White Sands missile range in New Mexico.

Potent weapon

A laser is a device that produces and amplifies light of a particular wavelength, or colour, which is then directed at a target with great accuracy.

If the laser is powerful enough, it can generate very high temperatures on the spot on which the light falls, melting or vaporising the target.

Military scientists are trying to develop lasers and tracking systems that can follow and hit fast-moving objects at distances ranging from tens of kilometres to, in theory, thousands of kilometres.

"This shoot-down shifts the paradigm for defensive capabilities," Lieutenant General Joseph Cosumano, head of the missile defence command, said of the latest test.

"We have shown that even an artillery projectile hurtling through the air at supersonic speed is no match for a laser."

Israeli interest

The laser was built as a joint project between the US and Israel.

The Israeli Government is interested in the system because Katyusha rockets are used by militant Islamic groups in attacks on Israel.

The system stems in part from a commitment former US President Bill Clinton made in April 1996 to then Israeli Prime Minister Shimon Peres to aid Israel in developing a security system against rockets.

Lasers were behind the space-based missile defence shield idea, labelled "Star Wars", first suggested by US President Ronald Reagan in 1983.

[link to news.bbc.co.uk]

No, you show your ignorance by attacking me instead of disproving the fact America and Israel has spent hundreds of millions of USA dollars on anti-missile and rocket systems.

Believe me if Israel wanted, these rockets would be shot down, but that would end their need to be in Lebanon butchering people...

i wasnt talking politics . i was just talking weapon systems .

Uh, you probably need to qualify that statement to make it much more clear to Murkans.

It was a Britiish anchor, right?

Murkan anchors always have too much Zionist c....ck in their mouths to make such statements.

Please tell me where I mentioned politics?

I mentioned military spending and nothing else!

No, I think she is an ozzie?

And I know why you play dumb:

Caroline Glick writes in The Jerusalem Post that the U.S. has reportedly suspended its cooperation with Israel on the Arrow and Tactical High Energy Laser (THEL) missile defense projects. Ms. Glick references an official source quoted by Middle East Newsline as saying of the pullback from military cooperation, “It’s all about China.”

Israel is the largest exporter of high-tech weapons to China. The Pentagon fears that China could, among other things, use its Israeli weapons against U.S. forces in a future Taiwan conflict. Glick notes that Israel should stop arming the Chinese or risk damaging its strategic relationship with the U.S. She also notes that by arming China, Israel is actually helping its regional enemies. China of course also exports weapons to Iran and Pakistan.

[link to www.missilethreat.com]

YOU ARE ANGRY, MOSSAD WANNABEE.

You are nothing, you said nothing.