Palestine
A community for everything related to Palestine and the occupation currently underway by the occupying force known as Israel.
Anti-Zionism is not anti-Semitism. Existence is resistance for Palestinians.
Please refer to Israel as Occupied Palestine, or occupied territories. The IDF is a fascist and ethnonationalist occupying force. Israelis are settlers. We understand however that the imperial narrative (which tries to legitimise Israel) is internalised in the imperial core and slip-ups are naturally expected.
We always take the sides of Palestine and Palestinians and are unapologetic about it. Israel is an occupying power whose "defence force"'s (note the contradiction) sole purpose for existing is to push Palestinians out so they can resettle their rightful land. If you have anything positive to say about Israel we do not care.
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80k for a missile is absolutely insane π
This can mean only one thing... Israel's national security depends on the US dollar collapsing :inshallah:
How so? What do you mean by collapsing? Where can I read more about it?
I was kind of teasing in suggesting that the only way Israel would be able to afford enough missiles is if the US dollar wasnβt worth anything
Isn't that cheap actually? Patriot SAM is 4 mil a shot
It's still crazy nonetheless lol.
Yeah I don't mean to say it's cheap in the absolute sense, just relative to other anti air missiles. Even non-western missiles like S300 are 1 mil a missile
I might be misremembering, but doesn't the iron dome rely pretty heavily on volume of missiles being shot as a defensive response rather than precision accuracy? Meaning each missile might "only" be 80k but they are launching like a dozen of them?
80k is still hundreds of times more than the rockets Hamas is using anyway.
what the fuck? seriously?
Thatβs extremely cheap, most modern munitions are hundreds of thousands, if not millions of dollars.
Even a 70βs rinky dink Soviet Strela-2 MANPAD is $120,000 per unit.
For reference, you can buy a decent > 300hp tractor for 80k. Isnt it absurd that these expendable missiles are on the same price range as a whole damn tractor π
Even putting aside the obvious grift/profit factor of these being made by capitalist companies, the raw materials and engineering that goes into making something that can maneuver at Mach 10 while trying to hit a moving target also moving at Mach 10 aren't cheap.
A massive amount of the cost comes from the computers, miniaturized guidance and targeting systems, the immense engineering and comp-sci R&D behind those devices, and the sheer difficulty of designing good explosives.
Even dumb bombs are expensive if you don't want them to dud, explode randomly, not be aerodynamic, and so on.