Israeli Aircraft

To all the "Armchair generals" "But I know it alls" allow me to provide facts.

We do NOT require a "B-52" an aircraft originally designed in the early 1950's! Nor an overly expensive B-2.

As in the past we have seen how our own Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) has a rich history of designing and producing superior military aircraft, thereby playing a crucial role in Israel's defense.

IAI is world particularly renowned for it's revolutionary production of "UAVs (Unmanned Aerial Vehicles) and improvements on American produced aircraft like the F-15I and F-35I.

While  Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) have also produced civilian aircraft and converted various types for cargo, their contributions to military aircraft upgrades are particularly notable.

Here are some of the key military aircraft designed and built by IAI over the years:

IAI Nesher: This was IAI's first fighter jet, essentially a reverse-engineered and improved version of the French Dassault Mirage 5, after France imposed an arms embargo on Israel. It was introduced in 1971.

IAI Kfir: Building on the Nesher, the Kfir (Lion Cub) was a more advanced multi-role fighter, incorporating a stronger American J79 engine and canards for improved maneuverability. It entered service in 1975 and has been exported to several countries. Various variants exist, including the C.1, C.2, C.7, and two-seat trainers (TC.2, TC.7). Some were even leased to the US Navy and Marine Corps as aggressor aircraft (F-21A Lion).

IAI Lavi: This was an ambitious project for a highly advanced, lightweight, single-engine multi-role fighter. It was intended to replace aircraft like the A-4 Skyhawk and Kfir in IAF service. The Lavi featured cutting-edge avionics, ELBIT electronocs, a digital fly-by-wire system, and extensive use of composite materials. 

Although two prototypes flew, the project was ultimately canceled in 1987 due to significant development costs and political pressure, particularly from the United States, which preferred Israel to purchase American-made aircraft like the F-16. 

Despite its cancellation, the Lavi program significantly advanced Israel's aerospace industry and its technologies found their way into other Israeli defense systems.

IAI Arava: This was a short take-off and landing (STOL) transport aircraft, designed for both military and civilian use. The military version was used for light transport and surveillance.

IAI Tzukit (Fouga CM.170 Magister): While originally a French design, IAI undertook licensed manufacturing of this twin-jet trainer, which became the primary trainer for the Israeli Air Force for decades. It also saw combat use as a close-support aircraft during the Six-Day War.

Beyond these fully designed aircraft, IAI is also a major player in: UAVs (Unmanned Aerial Vehicles): 

IAI has been a pioneer and global leader in drone technology, with a wide range of UAVs for reconnaissance, surveillance, and even strike capabilities. Notable examples include the Scout, Searcher, Heron (including Heron 1 and Heron TP), Harpy, and Harop.

Aircraft Upgrades and Conversions: IAI has extensive experience in upgrading and modernizing various military aircraft, often developing sophisticated avionics, electronic warfare systems, and structural modifications for both Israeli and foreign air forces. They also convert passenger aircraft into cargo aircraft for military and civilian clients.

Missile and Defense Systems Integration: IAI is heavily involved in integrating complex missile and defense systems onto various platforms, including their own and foreign-built aircraft.

It is most certainly plausabile that the IAI together with Elbit can produce a suitable UAVs (Unmanned Aerial Vehicle) to carry a "Massive Ordinance Device" MOD. 

The making of a UAV capable of carrying the weight of an MOD is not to "far farfetched" take for example the Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) Heron TP / Eitan (Israel) which is in use today: This large MALE UAV is reported to have a very high payload capacity, with some sources indicating up to 2,700 kg (5,950 lb). It can carry multiple mission systems, including radar, intelligence sensors, and combat payloads.

There is also the General Atomics MQ-9 Reaper (USA): This is one of the most well-known military UAVs. It has a significant payload capacity, capable of carrying 1,746 kg (3,850 lb), which includes 1,361 kg (3,000 lb) of external stores (weapons, sensors, etc.). It can be armed with Hellfire missiles, guided bombs, and other munitions.

The use of a manned device like the B-1 and B-2 has proven to the US Military to be costly not only in operating (flight) cost but seriosly and massively expensive in upkeep.

Massive Ordnance Penetrator (MOP) and Israel

 More information / facts-(So you will know and understand)

First it should be stated Part of the need for the US Airforce B-2’s is that it could penetrate very deeply into Iranian airspace and strike its targets without having to execute a full air war.

It would still need major support, but, combined with standoff capabilities and stealth tactical jets, it provides an avenue to a quicker and hopefully cleaner conflict aimed at dismantling Iran’s nuclear capabilities.

The need for the B-2’s stealth qualities is drastically reduced now that Israel has declared air superiority over Iran. That doesn’t mean ground-based air defenses are not still a threat — especially road mobile, shoulder-fired, and non-traditional systems — but Iran’s overall counter-air capability has been severely degraded. Fighters and even slow-moving large drones that operate at medium altitude are now flying relatively freely over major Iranian population centers today.

It is now plausable that an Israeli Airforce C-130 "Hercules" can survive reliably deep into Iranian territory now that the IAF basically control the skies over Iran.
Therefore it would be relevant for going after those nuclear targets that standard aerial weaponry cannot reach.

The GBU-57 Massive Ordnance Penetrator (MOP) could be designed to maximize the C-130’s airdrop envelope and not exceed it, and should have no problem fitting inside of and being released by a C-130.
Dropping a weapon weighing nearly 30,000 pounds out the back of a C-130 would certainly be something to behold.

One major area where the C-130 would be at a disadvantage to the B-2, beyond its survivability and ability to carry two MOPs at once, is its speed and altitude. The Hercules flies substantially lower and slower than the B-2, which would have an impact on the weapon’s overall impact force, and likely substantially so. A C-130 dropping the same weapon at 25,000 feet and 250 miles per hour will result in significantly less kinetic force of impact than a B-2 dropping the weapon at 50,000 feet and 500 miles per hour. This is a big deal for a munition that is meant to burrow down as deeply as possible into a mountain and detonate.
It isn’t clear if these performance differences would separate success from failure. It may be that just additional munitions would be needed in order to burrow down one on top of the other deeper into the mountain to hit the targeted cavity.

The GBU-57 Massive Ordnance Penetrator (MOP) is a precision-guided "bunker buster" bomb primarily comprised of:

BLU-127 Bomb Body (Warhead/Penetrator Case): This is the core of the weapon, designed to penetrate deeply buried and hardened targets.
Explosive Fill: The BLU-127 bomb body contains a significant amount of high-performance polymer-bonded explosives, typically a combination of AFX-757 and PBXN-114. This explosive is optimized for controlled detonation after penetration.

Casing: The bomb's casing is made from a high-density Eglin steel alloy, specifically engineered to withstand the extreme stresses of deep penetration before detonation.

Guidance Kit: This provides the precision guidance for the bomb.
Global Positioning System (GPS) and Inertial Navigation System (INS): These systems work together to ensure accurate targeting, allowing the bomb to strike within meters of its intended target.

Grid Fins: These retractable fins help stabilize the bomb in flight and allow for mid-course adjustments to maintain its trajectory.

Large Penetrator Smart Fuze (LPSF): This advanced fuzing system manages the detonation timing, adjusting the moment of explosion based on impact depth and the characteristics of the underground structure.

In essence, the GBU-57 is a combination of a robust, penetrating bomb body with a powerful explosive fill, integrated with a sophisticated guidance and fuzing system for precision and optimized detonation.

Palestinian Unity and the Nachba

 After seeing countless social media posts; by the Haters of Israel Zionism and Jews -specifically those graduates of the Communist / Socialist Antifa Shahid (Martys) school for imbeciles and those fellow self-hating Jews (in Name Only) who rant and rave like the lunatics they are that the "Zionist aggression" started "70 years ago" when the "All powerful" (read American and USSR supplied and armed) Hagannah , Palmach and vilified Irgun and LECHI led to the "Great Nachba".

Those who speak of Arab "Palestinian Unity" fail to note that even before the creation of the Jewish State the competing Arab leaders; the Grand Mufti Haj Amin al-Husseini and exiled Iraqi former Prime Minister Rashid Ali had desired to divide the land between themselves and had established "armed militias" to achieve their goals.

Now for the WHOLE truth -

Iraqi former Prime Minister Rashid Ali had created the Arab Liberation Army (ALA) led by Fawzi al-Qawuqji while the Grand Mufti had created the Army of the Holy War led by his kinsman Abd al-Qadir al-Husayni.
In addition to these two "militias", who vied for the former British Mandates Areas, where the armies of the Arab League who also vied for the conquest of the "Mandated Areas" to divide the land betwen themselves.

Abdul Qadir al-Husayni was born to the prominent and influential al-Husayni family of Jerusalem.
Abdul Qadir completed his secondary education in Jerusalem with distinction and then started at the College of Arts and Sciences at the American University of Beirut, but did not continue his studies there. Instead, he went to and later graduated in chemistry at the American University in Cairo while organising the Congress of Educated Muslims.

Initially, he took a post in the settlement department of the British Mandate government but eventually moved to the Hebron area during the 1936–1939 Arab revolt in Palestine to lead the struggle against the British where he was a guerilla commander for the Jerusalem district in the summer 1936.
In 1938, Abdul Qadir was exiled and in 1939 moved to Iraq where he took part in the Golden Square coup d'état. He moved to Egypt in 1946, but surreptitiously returned to Palestine to lead the Army of the Holy War in January 1948.

Husayni was killed while personally reconnoitring an area of Qastal Hill shrouded by fog, in the early hours of 8 April 1948.

His forces later captured al-Qastal from the Haganah, which retreated to the Jewish settlement of Motza.
Palmach troops recaptured the village on the night of 8–9 April, losing 18 men in the attack; and the hill became a command post.

Husayni's death has been regarded as THE major factor for the loss of morale among his forces.

Fawzi al-Qawuqji was a Lebanese-born Arab nationalist who served as a colonel in the Nazi Wehrmacht during World War II, and commanded the Arab Liberation Army (ALA) during the 1948 Palestine War.

After the UN Partition vote, the Arab League appointed Fawzi al-Qawuqji to be field commander of the Arab Liberation Army (ALA) in the 1948 Palestine War. This appointment was opposed by Haj Amin Husseini, who had appointed his own kinsman Abdul Qadir al-Husseini as the commander of the Army of the Holy War.
The execution of the 1948 Palestine War was marked by the personal, family, and political rivalry between al-Qawuqji (who fought mainly in northern Palestine) and al-Husayni, who fought mostly in the Jerusalem area.

It cries out to be noted that in early March 1948, al-Qawuqji moved some of his forces from the Damascus area and crossed - unmolested by British troops- into the Mandated Area of Palestine over the Allenby Bridge on March 6 and 7, leading hundreds of Arab and Bosnian volunteers in a column of twenty-five trucks.
The British troops' inaction infuriated General Sir Gordon MacMillan, who stated that al-Qawuqji should not be allowed "to go openly rampaging over territory in which Britain considered herself a sovereign power." General MacMillan did not want to confront al-Qawuqji's force, since he cowardly saw "no point in getting a lot of British soldiers killed in that kind of operation."

Inside Mandatory Palestine, al-Qawuqji commanded a few thousand armed men who had infiltrated the area deom neighboring Arab countries. They were grouped into several regiments concentrated in Galilee and around Nablus.
According to Collins and Lapierre, Al-Qawuqji told his troops that the purpose was "ridding Palestine of the Zionist plague", and his aim was "to drive all the Jews into the sea."

On the 4th of April 1948, the Arab Liberation Army (ALA) mounted a major attack on the kibbutz Mishmar HaEmek which sat near the strategic road that connected Haifa to Jenin, and was surrounded by Arab villages.
In the attack al-Qawuqji initiated the first use of artillery during the war by directing his seven 75 and 105 mm field guns to fire on the kibbutz for a 36-hour barrage. During this battle al-Qawuqji issued a number of announcements that were subsequently proven false.
In the first 24-hours he announced victory, on April 8th he announced he had taken Mishmar HaEmek.

However after the battle was lost he claimed the Jews had been assisted by non-Jewish Soviet troops and bombers. As "Proof" al-Qawuqji claimed to have intercepted copies telegrams, but these mendaciously false "telegrams of proof" can be seen preserved in the Jordanian archives.

The Haganah and Palmach counter-attacked and the ALA were routed. The battle was over by 16 April, and most of the Arabs in the area fled, disheartened by the defeat of the ALA or demoralized by the Jewish victory. The remaining minority were expelled from the surrounding Arab villages by Jewish forces.

In July, al-Qawuqji launched a rolling offensive of counterattacks, focusing on Ilaniya (Sejera), a Jewish settlement deep in ALA territory. Although he deployed armored cars and a battery of 75 mm artillery the opposing Golani Twelfth Battalion withstood the attack, inflicting heavy losses on the ALA. The battle ended on 18 July, with the ALA losing the Arab village of Lubiya, which had been their main base in Central Eastern Galilee.

The ALA established control of upper central Galilee, from the Sakhnin–Arabe–Deir Hanna line through Majd al-Krum up to the Lebanese border until October 1948. On 22 October, the date of the third UN Security Council cease-fire order, the ALA attacked Sheikh Abd, a hilltop overlooking Kibbutz Manara and put the kibbutz under siege.

In conclusion The REAL TRUTH, in THEIR OWN WORDS, of WHY the "Arab inhabitants of the Mandated Area of Palestine" FLED!

In the memoirs of Haled al Azm, who served as Prime Minister of Syria in 1948 and 1949, that were published in Beirut in 1973. Azm admitted in his memoirs that it was actually the Arab governments who called for the palestinian Arabs to evacuate and leave by sowing terror in them.

"Five: the call by the Arab governments to the inhabitants of Palestine to evacuate it and to leave for the bordering Arab countries after sowing the terror among them, following the incident at Deir Yassin."

"Since 1948 we have been demanding the return of the refugees to their homes. But we ourselves are the ones who encouraged them to leave."

Note the closing paragraph from his memoirs:

"We have brought destruction upon a (sic) million Arab refugees by calling upon them and pleading with them to leave their land, their homes, their work and business, and we have caused them to be barren and unemployed...we accustomed them to begging for handouts and to suffice with what little the UN organization would allocate them."