24 miles with a common JDAM. Pretty good, considering most other JDAM shots from other aircraft have been around 10-13. The regular iron bomb body is very useful. However what adds to this is when they do the above with the BLU-110 forged steel pointy tip cousin to the Mk83 body. That coming down vertically on a lot of things has great potential to break a lot of different types of targets. JSF on their first strike of the night will be late to the party where F-22s are already returning from their strategic first strike. :p
Goes with what I said before. After the large SAMs and enemy aircraft are beaten down the first few nights: I don’t need a stealth aircraft and certainly don’t need to be wasting money on the JSF.

This will provide excellent quick response fires support for USMC. Looks like a useful design in this pork of pork world.

Why is my picture different from the one above? Which design is it supposed to be?

I can guarantee you that a lion’s share of world airforces either don’t use US weapons or use them to a rather small degree because they are expensive and rather maintenance intensive.

Interesting theory. More like maintenance friendly. As for expense, more times than not, after all of the corporate welfare giveaways with offsets, and other creative financing, the only one it is “expensive” for, is the U.S. tax payer.

If I want to go to the beach over there, how deep should I dig my trench, so I have something to dive into when IDF arty upsets my beach party?

I did my homework tonight and read a 23-pages long history of Hamas downloaded from Euromonitor webpage. I was actually VERY surprised to find out that HAMAS is basically an own child of Israel.

HAMAS raised from non-militant Islamic organization called al-Ikhwan al-Muslimin under control and financing of Israeli government in the times prior to first Intifada and was actually meant as counterbalance to Arafat’s PLO which should furthermore weaken Arafat’s position.. But Israelis have miscalculated the whole matter – after Lebanon 1982 two militant groups within the movement were formed as reaction to Israeli terrorist groups Gush Emunim (operating in West Bank) and Kach! underground group from Gaza. With increasing popularity among simple Palestinian masses the movement slowly slipped out of Israeli control.

HAMAS was created in 1987 as a reaction to so-called ‘truck incident’ performed by Mossad. Al-Qassam groups were formed as late as 1991 after Sheikh al-Yassin was captured and their radicalization was furthermore enhanced after Hebron incident 1994 performed by Gush Emunim (Kach!) and assassinations of two Sheikhs in 1996 and another one in 2004.

What I find furthermore interesting are the numbers of dead during the 2nd Intifada. 973 dead Israelis against 3491 dead Palestinians.

That raises many questions.. Who is actually killing who here? Is the Israeli whining about them being just peaceloving victims of Muslim aggression adequate? Well, let me think… Uhm, no. The miscalculated Israeli attempts to conquer the whole area by political tricks, insurgent terrorist operations and/or direct military involvement added a large contribution to escalation of the whole problem.. So now, let them clean their own mess, gentlemen – but without massive military aid and other luxuries.

Yeah I bet the offer to buy more U.S. made F-15’s makes the situation look even happier after the artillery on the beach stunt Friday.

Wind would be one reason. 😉

SDB II with the try sensor would be no problem. SDB I with a mod or a JDAM with the off sensor update during flight might be possible too. ( tests already done by JSTARS ) However that is a lot of effort. I would put money on SDB II or laser/JDAM. SDB penetrates as good as a BLU-109. It is all how you set the fuse. An SDB would mission kill a lot of small craft pretty easy.