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World’s largest cargo plane lands in Israel to load Iron Dome batteries
Massive aircraft carrying U.S. military freight trucks touches ground and will transport defense system from Israel to defend American troops stationed in battlefields abroad
i24NEWS | YNET News, August 19, 2020:
Story continues below advertisementThe world’s largest cargo plane landed in Ben Gurion Airport, carrying U.S. military ‘Osh Kosh’ trucks that were fitted with Iron Dome missile defense system batteries purchased by the U.S. Army before leaving Israel, the Defense Ministry announced on Monday.
In August 2019, The ministry had signed a $373 million deal with the U.S. Defense Department to sell two off-the-shelf Iron Dome batteries to the American Army from Rafael which include 12 launchers, two sensors, two battlement management centers, and 240 interceptors.
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The system, developed by the ministry and prime contractor Rafael “will be used to defend U.S. military troops against a wide range of ballistic and aerial threats,” a Defense Ministry statement said.
The unloading of the Russian-made Antonov cargo plane was closed to the press.
This is the mammoth aircraft’s second trip to Israel after it touched ground on the Holy Land in 2008.
The Antonov An-225 Mriya was created in the 1980s in Soviet Ukraine and is the heaviest aircraft ever built.עשור לכיפת ברזל
An Iron Dome defense system intercepting a rocket
(Photo: Defense Ministry)
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The AN-225 has over 30 wheels, six engines and a wingspan of 290ft. The aircraft has a range of 15,400 km when unloaded and 4,500 when fully loaded.
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22 Comments
3 years ago
Good news, this adds MORE pressure on Iran. Last night, a US Iraq base was targeted by rockets from Iran-backed militia. They missed, but this is a common occurrence. The C-RAM radar-guided automatic machine gun takes care of the little stuff, and Iron Dome takes care of the bigger stuff. Preventing Iran from injuring US troops makes the struggle more lopsided in the US’s favor.
3 years ago
Reply to
DemocracyRules
The C-Ram were used in Balad while I was there and they are very effective!!!! I think they need to retrofit them for crowd control on the black little moron riots!
3 years ago
Reply to
DemocracyRules
Like in Iraq and used for anti-mortar defenses…the moronic parasites were always lobbing in mortars or rockets and artillery.
3 years ago
Reply to
patd
What about low trajectory smaller mortar rounds? Like 81mm? How much time does this device have to respond to a mortar round or mortar rounds if fired in a TOT type scenario? I’ll bet it’s not 100% effective either.
3 years ago
Reply to
MuhamMUDTheFakeProphet
I heard it firing many nights and didn’t hear of a round getting through while I was there. They were quick as anything. There are videos on line or where on how it operated. If not 100% they were damn close to it and they were in high demand.
3 years ago
Reply to
DemocracyRules
Correction: Antonov cargo plane is not Russian made plane. It is Ukrainian made plane that clearly displays Ukrainian flag. Russians make planes for bombing US troops. Protecting them is not Russian thing.
It is good to see how three democracies USA, Israel and Ukraine share technology to defeat the troglodytes.
3 years ago
Reply to
VTS
Yes of course you are right. The news report may have confused “Soviet Aircraft” with Russian aircraft”. Of course, the Antonov planes were “Soviet aircraft” before 1991. And now they are “Ukrainian aircraft”. And I’m glad to see that Antonov is sill making planes.
3 years ago
Reply to
VTS
Thanks you’re right it did say Ukrainian built and does indeed have a Ukrainian flag on the tail –
3 years ago
Reply to
DemocracyRules
VP DEMENTIAL DADDY JOE MIGHTY SLOW HIDING BRIBE’M/BIDEN WOULD ENCOURAGE IRAN AND THE TERRORISTS! CAN WE BLAME THEM? I WOULDN’T RESPECT NOR FEAR THE USA EITHER IF VP BIDEN BECOMES PRESIDENT IF I WAS AN ISLAMIC TERRORIST TO BE TRUTHFUL!
3 years ago
Reply to
DemocracyRules
VP DEMENTIAL DADDY JOE MIGHTY SLOW HIDING BRIBE’M/BIDEN WOULD ENCOURAGE IRAN AND THE TERRORISTS! CAN WE BLAME THEM! I WOULDN’T RESPECT NOR FEAR THE USA EITHER IF VP BIDEN BECOMES PRESIDENT IF I WAS AN ISLAMIC TERRORIST TO BE TRUTHFUL!
3 years ago
Excellent and make sure they use them.
3 years ago
A question that SCREAMS for an answer: WHY do we have any of our troops stationed “abroad” (in countries in which they have no business being).
The ony legitimate use of the armed forces of a country is to defend the country from invasion by a foreign power.
Period!
And our troops can’t defend our country if their being deployed in and defending, at great expense, foreign countries that hate us.
Photo below shows two female American soldiers in a Muslim country – out of uniform – as they are wearing the hijab; they are proudly demonstrating an idiotic degree of political correctness and shamelessly presurrendered, while showing that they well deserve no disrespect at all from the Muslims around them.
3 years ago
Reply to
Merlinever
Yes – tho as they also say –
“Better over there then waiting for them here when “they” clearly mean to kill us all- while already doing so to Allies there”
3 years ago
Reply to
Merlinever
“WHY do we have any of our troops stationed “abroad”. Good question for Bill Clinton, Bushes, Colin Powell and BHOooooo!
3 years ago
Interesting, using a soviet aircraft to supply American combat troops –
3 years ago
GOOD FOR PRES. TRUMP! RUSSIA AND ISRAEL MAKE GOOD MILITARY STUFF! GOD BLESS THE USA & WE NEED IT IN THE WORLD TODAY! SUPER SUMMER RIGHTISTS!
