Re: Interesting - Ukraine Missiles Use Open Source, Russians Use Pi-4s

On 7/22/26 00:17, Robert Riches wrote:
> On 2026-07-22, rbowman <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> You need to do a reality check about Iron Dome. Israel is larger than
>> Connecticut and smaller than New Jersey. That doesn't scale well to the US
>> or even Europe. It might work for Slovenia.
>>
>> That bit of reality amazes me. If the Arabs ever got their act together
>> they should be able to roll up the country like a rug. Of course there is
>> Big Brother and the supposed atomic bombs.
> 
> Some decades ago, Paul Harvey had an interesting take on Israel's
> need for nuclear deterrent.  He figured Israel needed only two
> nukes to guarantee their enemies would never push far enough to
> require use of the nukes.  One would be aimed at the Aswan High
> Dam in Egypt, which would destroy basically all of Egypt--and/or
> make pretty much all of Egypt uninhabitable for centuries.  The
> other would be aimed at Mecca.

   Egypt is not a major enemy of Israel - hasn't
   been for a LONG time.

   Mecca ... symbolic, but ........

   Israel apparently has 50-100 nuclear weapons
   at this point. Mostly "small", but still very
   deadly.

   IF an Iranian nuke goes off anywhere near
   Israel then Iran is just literal TOAST.