Israel attacks Gaza Strip

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bd popeye

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You fine gentlemen of varied ethnic backgrounds and countries are doing an excellent job of discussing this war in a intelligent manner. Unlike many other forums and groups I have read. Keep it up! Great job.:)

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crazyinsane105

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Al Jazeera has reported that nearly eleven Israeli soldiers have been killed today in the fighting, making it Israel's deadliest day. Hezbullah made a similar claim by saying they killed ten Israeli soldiers and destroyed a tank.
 
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ahho

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isthvan said:
IDF shoot down UAV near Haifa


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Video of UAV downing... I’m not quite sure if this is real footage so any comments would be welcome...

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ok from the video i was wondering, is the part with light is the drone with flares or the circled black part is the drone???
 
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maglomanic

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15 IDF soldiers killed. Once again the biggest damaging factor being Anti tank missiles. Hizbollah is giving new fame to ATMs. After this war is over i expect a more renewed interest in development and improvement of this weapon system.
P.S Four of the killed were in a tank which exploded due to ATM hit.

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DPRKUnderground

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maglomanic said:
15 IDF soldiers killed. Once again the biggest damaging factor being Anti tank missiles. Hizbollah is giving new fame to ATMs. After this war is over i expect a more renewed interest in development and improvement of this weapon system.
P.S Four of the killed were in a tank which exploded due to ATM hit.

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Well, look at the Yugoslavian civil war. Even after numberous Bakhtar Shikan kills (It was reported a M-84 had it's turret blown off completely) nothing changed that much on ATGM development. But I think it will definitley revolutionize how guerillas fight.
 
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maglomanic

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DPRKUnderground said:
Well, look at the Yugoslavian civil war. Even after numberous Bakhtar Shikan kills (It was reported a M-84 had it's turret blown off completely) nothing changed that much on ATGM development. But I think it will definitley revolutionize how guerillas fight.
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Baktir Shikin wasn't totally succesful. They found it to be too heavy. Hence the newer version which is lighter and has a simple and small stand assembly. Also, it wasn't widely used. Incase of Hizb VS IDF slugfest it's having lot of effect. IDF hasn't been able to take much area or control whatever they have effectively. Even by conservative estimates there have been atleast 30 hits on Israeli armor.

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coolieno99

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Looks like the fightings has been heating up. Here's more details from a passage from a TimesOnline.co.uk article:

Although the Israeli Government said it was waiting on diplomatic developments before starting a major offensive that would reach up to 20 miles (32km) inside the country, Israeli tanks and soldiers were caught in vicious, close fighting with Hezbollah guerrillas across southern Lebanon today.

Last night, a mile-long column of tanks and armoured bulldozers rolled across the border into Lebanon after Israel’s security Cabinet approved a significant expansion of its four-week-old war to cripple Hezbollah.

But dawn broke to reveal tanks were being crippled within sight of the border town of Metulla. Shoulder-launched Hezbollah missiles sent tank crews sprinting for safety while other vehicles laid down smoke to cover their escape.

Five miles (8km) inside Lebanon, Israeli troops were reported to have taken the Christian town of Marjayoun, which served as the headquarters of the eighteen-year Israeli occupation of southern Lebanon, which ended in 2000.

Although the town is not believed to be sympathetic towards Hezbollah, residents said two Israeli tanks were destroyed in an ambush. The town overlooks the valley of the Litani River, where Israel believes many of the Hezbollah rocket attacks against its northern towns are launched.

Elsewhere across the fiercely contested swathe of Hezbollah-controlled territory inside southern Lebanon, Israeli soldiers encountered severe resistance.

The Shia group claimed to have destroyed 13 Israeli tanks and to have killed 18 Israeli soldiers. The group also maintained its rocket barrage: launching more than 100 Katyushas at towns and villages in northern Israel. One rocket killed an Arab Israeli mother and her young child. Another hit Haifa.

After suffering 15 fatalities yesterday, Israeli commanders did not comment on tank losses or casualties but reports that indicated that the worst fighting was taking place in the Khiam plain, an area of flat ground believed to be used as a rocket launching base. At least 82 Israeli soldiers have been killed in the conflict.

To the north, helicopter gunships opened fire on buildings of the Beirut seafront, the first shelling of the centre of the Lebanese capital since Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah, the leader of Hezbollah, said further attacks on the heart of the city would lead to Hezbollah strikes on Tel Aviv.

A radio antenna was destroyed and part of the roof of a historic lighthouse was blown apart. Leaflets gave warning of further attacks. In Tyre, Lebanese officials said a motorcyclist was killed by an Israeli rocket. In the eastern Bekaa Valley, a Hezbollah stronghold, an Israeli drone fired a missile into a minibus, killing one person and wounding 12, residents said.

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DennisDaMenace

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I was watching Fox news again. They showed several IDF tanks on a road, near the top of a ridge, lined outwards. Then suddenly the middle one just blew up all over the place, I mean it was just blown into nothin. I think it was a Merakava but it happend real fast. What impressd me was it was a frontal shot. Has anyone else seen this clip?
I watched the news for many hours more but they never replayed the clip. What ever Hazbollah is using- alot of other countries are going to want to buy it.
 
Shahid

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Here's a hint about what they may be using :

Tehran, Aug 11, IRNA -- The Iranian Defense Ministry is in the process of manufacturing three military aircraft as part of a wide-ranging campaign to attain self-sufficiency in the manufacture of conventional weapons for defensive purposes, the student news agency ISNA reported Saturday.

"The defense ministry has attained self-sufficiency in the manufacture of spare parts for warplanes and, hopefully, it will also achieve self-sufficiency in the manufacture of warplanes," the agency quoted an unnamed source as saying.

The source told ISNA that the defense ministry has chosen European and Asian models in its program.

Last month Iran successfully test-fired an armor-piercing anti-tank missile capable of destroying the most sophisticated armored equipment.

The Saeqeh-1 (lightning) missile enjoys a high infiltration capability and can destroy the most sophisticated armored equipment in the world.
 
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