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

On 23/07/2026 04:09, c186282 wrote:
> 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.
> 
Tehran perhaps. But Iran is a big place and tactical weapons are not 
really useful in such a conflict

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