Tuesday - February 12, 2008

sounds good to me

story at The Jerusalem Post

A new Facebook group is urging Sderot residents to use the Internet to learn how to build crude rockets, much like the Kassams launched at them from the Gaza Strip, and fire them back at the Palestinians.

Defense Minister Barak is heckled in battered Sderot

The group, which currently has 45 members, posts material from the Internet on how to manufacture rockets.

Facebook, a social networking site that has taken the on-line world by storm, allows anyone to create groups and to invite people to join.

The group’s creators, Shai and Batya Messenberg from Petah Tikva, posted a description that reads: “It cannot be so difficult: If those retards from the Gaza Strip can do it then so can you.”

The description encourages residents of the town to trawl the Net for information on how to build ballistic missiles from materials found in the home.

“I’m sure that very soon they [the Gazans] will get the message,” the group’s creator wrote.

The message goes on to say that Sderot residents can also do their part in cutting off the flow of Israeli electricity to the Gaza Strip, “even if the High Court of Justice won’t allow it,” by finding someone with a tractor who is willing to drive into nearby electrical poles.

I love it. The people are rising up. If their own government won’t fight back against the constant rocket barrage they suffer daily, then they’ll do it themselves. It’s about time.

I’m not a missile expert, but I did compete in NAR model rocket events as a kid. These little Kassam rockets are deadly but pretty ineffective in both rocketry and military terms. Most of them carry a warhead that weighs barely 15 pounds, and have at best a 6 mile range. That’s pathetic. But they are effective terror weapons because you can see and hear them coming. Plus they are unguided, so they can hit anywhere, randomly.

On the other hand, a far more effective anti-Kassam counter rocket campaign could be waged with a small amount of government help. Maybe If the government were to build a couple little factories (one makes rocket motors, one makes mortar rounds, one makes tubes with fins) and just leave the back doors open at night ...

There. That took me longer to try and draw than it did to design. All it is, is a simple aluminum tube that houses a booster rocket motor and a standard M933 120mm mortar shell and an inertial ignition device. Build them on the cheap by the thousands. They’ll outrange and outblast the Kassams but good.

The Kassam rockets have two major drawbacks - they don’t use military grade warheads and they are single stage rockets. Single stage rockets carry a lot of dead weight around with them, so they are range limited. On its own the M933 has a range of 4 1/2 miles. Use the booster stage to double the velocity and you’ll get more than double the range. And the whole damn Gaza Strip is only 20 miles long.

Posted by Drew458     on 02/12/2008 at 11:16 AM   
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