U.S. to help Israel buy four more Iron Dome interceptors ($204 million + $106 million))

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From Haaretz:

The Pentagon is planning to help Israel buy four more Iron Dome short-range anti-rocket batteries, the head of the Pentagon's Missile Defense Agency said on Wednesday.

"In our budget, we have a proposal to assist with procurement of four more batteries," Army Lieutenant General Patrick O'Reilly, the agency's director, told the U.S. Senate Appropriations Defense subcommittee.

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Obama in his 2012 budget request asked the U.S. Congress for $106.1 million for U.S.-Israeli joint missile defense programs, including improvements to the Arrow ballistic missile shield and David's Sling. Unlike these two programs, the development of Iron Dome was a unilateral Israeli project.

The Iron Dome's radar-guided interceptor missile is built by state-owned Rafael Advanced Defense Systems Ltd. It is designed to destroy in mid-air rockets and mortar bombs that have ranges of 5 km (3 miles) to 70 km (45 miles).

That's a lot of money. And that's on top of the 3 Billion we give Israel already.

PB

[FLAprogressive]

1. Israel is like the spoiled daughter who gets everything she wants from her push-over parents.

[here_is_to_hope]

5. lmao... n/t

[Sonoman]

2. A crime has been committed.

That ordnance requires trajectory feeds.

Hizbollah's rockets are more like bottle-rockets.

Iran is not (yet) crazy enough to launch missile attacks on Israel.

This was simply a money-grab.

Sonoman

[xchrom]

3. Wait - what? Isn't there some debt/deficit Thingy happening? Nt

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4. You'll be singing a different tune when we stop Red Vancouver from turning Seattle into....

...smoking rubble. Oh, now that I say that out loud it sounds sort of crazy-ish.

PB