Comments on: Israeli eye in the sky

By: John M.

John M. — Sat, 26 Jun 2010 19:56:40 +0000

Geofc, that’s a very interesting observation about the west-to east launch over the Mediterranean. I never thought about that.

Seems like they could contract with NASA to do launches.

What would really be cool would be Israel acquiring an overseas territory with ocean to the east. Maybe Mauritius… Or Malta…

By: Michael Lonie

Michael Lonie — Fri, 25 Jun 2010 03:40:18 +0000

Veeshir,
What a great idea. Put the wind up the scum.

By: Veeshir

Veeshir — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 14:51:50 +0000

Since Israelis usually have a good sense of humor in how they mess with their terrorists friend,
I’d like to see them call Ahmadinejad and tell him their Ofek 9 noticed a little lesion on the
back of his neck that he might want to have looked at.

By: geoffc

geoffc — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 13:58:20 +0000

Its a shame, but the only country in the world that has to launch to the west instead of east is Israel. A satellite launch to the east picks up the Earths rotation, whereas a launch to the west has to overcome the Earths rotation. Thus payload on the Shavit is severely reduced.

Two basic issues. 1) Scaring the pants of all the arabs that it is a ballistic missle launch. 2) In case of a problem, debris would fall over populated areas. (Well not really that populated… Lots of desert out there).

By: Tom Frank

Tom Frank — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 13:52:01 +0000

“At a given moment, there is not one place which interests us in the Middle East and is not being shot.”

Translation – we have continuous, real time targeting info on every possible threat in the Middle East…to go with our unmanned bomber.

I wonder if the attack will come before or after our up coming elections?