from MicroWave@lemmy.world to world@lemmy.world on 23 Mar 22:21
https://lemmy.world/post/44657706
Gleaming trails of bomblets in night sky have become familiar to Israelis as Tehran exploits apparent vulnerability
The Guardian, which reviewed the impact of dozens of Iranian strikes alongside statements from Israeli officials, has identified at least 19 ballistic missiles carrying cluster warheads that penetrated Israeli airspace and struck urban areas since the beginning of the war with Iran on 28 February.
Those attacks have killed at least nine people and wounded dozens, reflecting a broader shift in Iran’s tactics that appears to have exposed a vulnerability in Israel’s air defences.
Since the start of the war, Iran’s cluster munitions – which disperse dozens of bomblets mid-air – have tested Israel’s highly advanced, multi-tier missile defence network, including Iron Dome, which is designed to counter threats across ranges, altitudes and speeds, exposing gaps that interception alone has struggled to close.
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Oh no, the special thing that made Israel feel like invincible and led to them being super aggressive and antagonistic does not work. What ever will those being oppressed by them do!?
I mean, it still works, it’s just not undefeatable. For the kind of remote attacks Palestinians might launch it’s quite effective.
They need to start using dirty bombs. Fill their payloads with salt so when the dome blows them up, it salts the land. Optionally, if you can find a way to arc the shrapnel down you could go for a type of cluster munition or shrapnel bomb that is designed to still be deployable after taking a ballistic missile. The options for drones also raises greatly if you have a little know how, but im not sure flying drones would be the way to go.
They don’t really have a way to produce drones, or radioactive materials. The shitty Hamas rockets are about as much as they can do with the resources and institutions available.
Some kind of chemical warfare might be an option, but salt isn’t really strong enough to do much in any reasonable quantity. And there’s the whole moral issue about if it’s justified, and the PR issue - they’re obviously the net victims, making that more ambiguous while still not winning outright would not be in their interest.
Per the article that’s what Iran has been doing. It seems like they could add submunitions to a Hamas rocket, although it would take effort and there might be other considerations I don’t know enough to speak to.
Honestly the Palestinian’s main asset is just that the US is turning isolationist and everybody else in the West is running out of ability to ignore Israeli bastardry. If they keep surviving opportunities for change will probably arrive. And then we’ll have to worry about genocide running the other way.