It happened once again that in their eagerness to borrow
Uncle Sam's erection and pretend they are studs and not eunuchs, the Israelis
embarrassed themselves and embarrassed the Americans trying to conduct an
experiment over the Mediterranean Sea . The
last time they did something like this was the time when they took a computer
virus from the Americans, and screwed it up trying to improve on it even though
it was functioning perfectly well.
The screw-up caused the virus to reveal itself to the
Iranians whose nuclear equipment it was supposed to sabotage. Before too much
damage was done, the Iranians had detected the virus, had cleaned up their
systems, and had a good laugh at the Jewish goofballs who could never do anything
right. The fiasco did not seem to embarrass the shameless Israelis, but the
Americans were mightily embarrassed.
This time, the Israelis tried to score two goals with one
experiment over the Mediterranean Sea . They
wanted to know how fast the Russians will detect the launch of American
missiles on Syria in the
upcoming confrontation, and they wanted to show the Syrians that they have the
capability to intercept ballistic missiles should the latter attack Israel in
response to the American action. And so, the Israelis launched a ballistic
missile, and then launched an interceptor to go after it.
The result was that the Russians detected the two launches
in seconds. But the Israelis did not impress the Syrians because the experiment
failed in that the interceptor did not intercept, and the two rockets fell into
the sea. The Americans were so embarrassed, they tried to deny they had
anything to do with the experiment but the Israelis told a different story, and
the Americans had to admit they took part in it.
To understand how serious a blunder this is, something must
be said about the principles behind missile interception. The probability of a
missile intercepting another missile or a warplane head-on is near zero. This
is because the speed of the two objects will add, and they will approach each
other at a minimum of 1,200 miles an hour, or 1,700 feet per second. And so,
not only do you have to line them up in the left-right and up-down directions,
you must also time the explosion of the interceptor to within one thousandth of
a second or they will miss each other. That's what will happen with
interceptors equipped with chemical explosives.
If, however, you are having a nuclear war, the interceptor
you launch can be equipped with a nuclear warhead. It will be made to detonate
a few seconds before the arrival of the ballistic missile that is itself
carrying a nuclear warhead of its own. The detonation of the interceptor will
create a radioactive cloud several miles wide that the incoming missile will
have to travel through. In this case, the probability will be high that the
electronic components of the incoming missile will be damaged, causing it to
malfunction and fall or self-destruct long before it reaches its target.
This said, air-to-air and surface-to-air missiles (SAM) are
useful in other circumstances. If your missile is faster than a warplane which
is getting away from you, the missile will have ample time to detect the heat
of the receding plane and guide itself towards it. This will happen because the
faster missile will approach the slower warplane at a speed that is the
difference between the two. For example, if the warplane travels at 500 miles
and the missile at 540 miles, the latter will approach the plane at the speed
of 40 miles an hour. And the explosion of the interceptor will take place at a
close proximity.
What this says is that if you are a pilot attacking targets
inside a large territory, you must avoid having a fighter jet at your tail, or
have a surface-to-air battery behind you. Before you go too deep inland, you
must make sure to “take out” the batteries that can launch missiles after you.
But if you are a country as small as Israel, SAM batteries
are useless to you unless you develop a system that can intercept warplanes and
missiles head-on, long before they reach you, and blow them in the sky using a
chemical explosive.
And this has not been done despite the lies about the Iron
Dome that the Israeli propaganda machine is putting out. The latest
Mediterranean test has proven once again that this is a pipe dream that is
still their dream.