By S. Fred Singer, AMERICAN THINKER
As an avid reader of Aviation Week, I became interested in the F-35, the newest Department of Defense fighter plane. The DOD had sold nine initial units to our ally Israel. I thought it was a wise decision for three reasons:
1. It provided actual testing for the new aircraft under realistic battle conditions. Aviation Week noted that Israel used several of its F-35s to attack more than 50 Iranian military installations in Syria. All these were presumably protected by the Russian-built Anti-Aircraft system S-300. Their latest design with more powerful radars, is being sold worldwide. Israel had a chance to study an earlier version, sold to Cyprus.
The F-35 attack was completed in less than 90 minutes, a notable achievement in military intelligence, as well as in operational planning and coordination.
Aviation Week didn’t tell us how many F-35s took part in the operation, and whether they returned safely; presumably they all did. Aviation Week did not reveal the tricks Israeli pilots used to evade the S-300 AA system.
2. A [June 5, 2018] Report of the Government Accountability Office [GAO] is quite critical of the F-35 joint strike fighter-bomber. Many experts doubt the viability of the aircraft to meet the various requirements of all the DOD services. In particular, the Report criticizes the design of the helmet-mounted display that presents the necessary operational data to aid the pilot.
In other words, while the aircraft itself provides propulsion and carries the required air-to-ground and air-to-air missiles, the electronics, associated with the helmet, represents the “brain” of the F-35.
It so happens that Israeli engineers have much experience in this field, following the design of the IAF [Israel Air Force] Lavie fighter [that was never built.] Apparently, the DOD expects that some of the design experience for the display will be carried over to the F-35.
3. Finally, allowing the F-35 to be sold now lowers the huge procurement cost for the DOD, about 400 billion dollars. The buy-decision is due in October 2019.
In the wake of the successful air strike, what will Russia do now? Obviously, there will be some redesign and improvement of the Russian S-300 system to make it saleable to “non-captive” customers.
F-35 (photo credit USAF)
But beyond this, Russia is likely to not become involved further in the mess in Syria. This seems to be the outcome also of the recent Helsinki summit between Trump and Putin. The Pan-Arab paper Al-Hayat, published in London, even suggests that Russia may not object to Israel “clipping the wings” of the Iranian Eagle.
Writing in Ha’aretz, former Israeli Defense Minister Moshe Arens, himself chief designer of the Lavie fighter, believes that Russia will not want to tangle with Israel, in view of its demonstrated technological superiority.
After all, Israel could easily destroy the Russian-built plutonium reactor at Arak, Iran, after getting permission to overfly Saudi Arabia. (Plutonium is the second way to build a nuclear weapon; Iran apparently has decided to go the route of the enriched Uranium-235. The U.S. used both methods in WW II.)
The Russian naval base at Latakia, Syria, is within easy range. The Russians have deployed a more advanced S-400 system to protect Latakia and other installations, which they claim can take down stealth fighters such as the F-35 at a range of over 150 miles. The S-400 failed to respond to the April 14, 2018 missile strikes by U.S., British, and French forces, leading some observers to conclude that the system was overrated.
I might add that Latakia and the main Russian naval base on the Crimean peninsula outflank Turkey and thus would discourage it from bottling up the Russian Black-Sea fleet.
As an avid reader of Aviation Week, I became interested in the F-35, the newest Department of Defense fighter plane. The DOD had sold nine initial units to our ally Israel. I thought it was a wise decision for three reasons:
1. It provided actual testing for the new aircraft under realistic battle conditions. Aviation Week noted that Israel used several of its F-35s to attack more than 50 Iranian military installations in Syria. All these were presumably protected by the Russian-built Anti-Aircraft system S-300. Their latest design with more powerful radars, is being sold worldwide. Israel had a chance to study an earlier version, sold to Cyprus.
The F-35 attack was completed in less than 90 minutes, a notable achievement in military intelligence, as well as in operational planning and coordination.
Aviation Week didn’t tell us how many F-35s took part in the operation, and whether they returned safely; presumably they all did. Aviation Week did not reveal the tricks Israeli pilots used to evade the S-300 AA system.
2. A [June 5, 2018] Report of the Government Accountability Office [GAO] is quite critical of the F-35 joint strike fighter-bomber. Many experts doubt the viability of the aircraft to meet the various requirements of all the DOD services. In particular, the Report criticizes the design of the helmet-mounted display that presents the necessary operational data to aid the pilot.
In other words, while the aircraft itself provides propulsion and carries the required air-to-ground and air-to-air missiles, the electronics, associated with the helmet, represents the “brain” of the F-35.
It so happens that Israeli engineers have much experience in this field, following the design of the IAF [Israel Air Force] Lavie fighter [that was never built.] Apparently, the DOD expects that some of the design experience for the display will be carried over to the F-35.
3. Finally, allowing the F-35 to be sold now lowers the huge procurement cost for the DOD, about 400 billion dollars. The buy-decision is due in October 2019.
In the wake of the successful air strike, what will Russia do now? Obviously, there will be some redesign and improvement of the Russian S-300 system to make it saleable to “non-captive” customers.
F-35 (photo credit USAF)
But beyond this, Russia is likely to not become involved further in the mess in Syria. This seems to be the outcome also of the recent Helsinki summit between Trump and Putin. The Pan-Arab paper Al-Hayat, published in London, even suggests that Russia may not object to Israel “clipping the wings” of the Iranian Eagle.
Writing in Ha’aretz, former Israeli Defense Minister Moshe Arens, himself chief designer of the Lavie fighter, believes that Russia will not want to tangle with Israel, in view of its demonstrated technological superiority.
After all, Israel could easily destroy the Russian-built plutonium reactor at Arak, Iran, after getting permission to overfly Saudi Arabia. (Plutonium is the second way to build a nuclear weapon; Iran apparently has decided to go the route of the enriched Uranium-235. The U.S. used both methods in WW II.)
The Russian naval base at Latakia, Syria, is within easy range. The Russians have deployed a more advanced S-400 system to protect Latakia and other installations, which they claim can take down stealth fighters such as the F-35 at a range of over 150 miles. The S-400 failed to respond to the April 14, 2018 missile strikes by U.S., British, and French forces, leading some observers to conclude that the system was overrated.
I might add that Latakia and the main Russian naval base on the Crimean peninsula outflank Turkey and thus would discourage it from bottling up the Russian Black-Sea fleet.
@ Sebastien Zorn:
Yes I DO know, as I looked up the same entry which I indicated when I said that there were other claimants. The amount surprised me. The only one I couldn’t figure out was the first one, the “Vash Von”… I eventually put it down to a remaining Prussian soldier after the War for Independence from Britain, and his imperfect English, meaning “a flash one”….
And let’s change that reference from “it’s” to “It WAS” about me, but not since the 1980s. I think that my reference to “one in a lifetime” covered that.
Yet, hearing back to that Israel period, I don’t believe that in a long, fairly competent lifetime-so far- I have ever encountered such pre-planned villainy as I did in Israel. It reminds me of what an old girl friend told me on her return from 2 years in Israel years before I went, that it was the sink hole of the world’s crooks and confidence tricksters, committing such filthy acts in every day life, that were indescribable. (paraphrased). I think I mentioned it on this site a couple of years ago.
But, Sebastien, please, if you detect a senile weakness in my posts here, be quick to point this out to me, (need I even ask….????) so that I can get medical confirmation -or denial, at once. You, being a comparative youngster, need not worry….although there have been …………….
@ Edgar G.:
I stand corrected. Apparently the earliest known variant was in 1806.
1806: there vash von fool born every minute
1826: a new fool is born every day
1835: there is a flat born every minute
1877: there is a fool born every hour
1879: there’s a sucker born every minute (anonymous adage)
1882: there was a sucker born every minute (attrib anon con man)
1885: there was a sucker born every minute (attrib Hungry Joe)
1888: there is a sucker born every minute (attrib Artemus Ward)
1889: a sucker is born every minute (attrib Mike McDonald)
1890: a fool was born every minute (attrib P.T. Barnum)
1892: there was a sucker born every minute (attrib P.T. Barnum)
https://quoteinvestigator.com/2014/04/11/fool-born/
Figures you’d know. It’s about you after all.
@ Edgar G.:
Sebastien…I just remembered, that W.C. Fields did not say that at all. What he said was “Never give a sucker an even break”, and in fact it was the name of a movie of which he wrote the screen play. I actually vaguely recall having seen it during the War, and ever since I answered you, it wa niggling at me, that I’d missed out something.
@ Sebastien Zorn:
I managed to slow it down to one in a lifetime, after Israel….. And P.T.Barnum gets the most credit for that, although there are many others, who said similar things..
But the way W.C. said it was more noteworthy, when he twisted that red bulbous appendage to his nose around, during the utterance.
Edgar G. Said:
I am relieved for you. Didn’t you say you got ripped off when you lived in Israel? Is it possible you have a tendency to be one of those people W.C. Fields remarked are born every minute? I wonder what it feels like to be born every minute. Painful, I bet.
@ Sebastien Zorn:
I’ve read a lot about those longhorn cattle, both in manuals and in many western novels. They roam widely and can live on scrub and even cactus. They often walk 3 days to get to water, very hardy indeed. I personally though it was a good idea and subject to his answering my questions, was prepared to invest….maybe. But he never replied.
One thing I DO know is that these cattle are like tigers, the most aggressive animals comparable with the African buffalo, I’ve read. It’s suicide to be caught in the open by one of them and only comparatively safe if riding a horse. Their horn spreads can be up to 6-7 feet. They are at home in Western America where there are still ranchers and men riding horses. But in the Negev….Oy… . The only suitable place in Israel for them are the Arab villages.
Still,for meat eaters, If I was one, I’d order longhorn beef, which has little or no fat, so in my opinion, the healthiest meat.
As the footman in “Pendennis” said.(in referring to Blanche Avery) ..”And that’s my candig apinium, Mr. Morgan”…..
@ Edgar G.:
Maybe he overdosed on meat?
@ Sebastien Zorn:
I believe that this site is only one of many. He could have his computer set up to automatically emit these thinly disguised begging letters to maybe a hundred other sites. I seem to recall that one of our posters commented that he’d seen the same post on another site. This was a couple of years ago. He must be making a living at it anyway, or else he’s be working. He says nothing about being incapacitated. Maybe post war stress trauma…….??
robin@longhornproject.org Said:
Ha Ha. Bridge for Sale? Who would be dumb enough to fall for such an obvious online phishing scam. $50,000? is he kidding? Wow, it’s at no cost and all he needs is your account number. Oh, well, if that’s all he needs.
“It’s good to want things.” – film “Welcome Home Roxy Carmichael” (1990).
@ Edgar G.:
Good points. But, what about my last question. Why does he keep posting here when it’s clear that it’s mostly the same people, mostly people who’ve been around the block, and all of whom, all who have spoken up anyway, don’t believe he is on the level. This is the opposite of preaching to the choir. I mean, what’s the point?
@ david melech:
I don’t think he’s serious about feeding the poor,…unless it’s him… he’s just using it as a lead-in to another way to plug his “project”…… He never answers any questions about what he does with the money that has been “invested” in his “project’….it’s been going on for years already….
He has such wonderful credentials as an Israel patriot I don’t know why he isn’t living in Israel, instead of amongst the goyim. If his military and other credentials that HE mentions are true…I say “if”….then he’s missing out on a lot of Govt benefits in Israel…Doesn’t sound normal or natural to me…. Maybe to you………??
@ robin@longhornproject.org:
I haven’t eaten meat in 40 years. But, OK, that’s not for everybody. Lots of poor Jews who can’t afford their meat. You”ve been raising money for a long time. What have you done for any of these people? Where are the testimonials? Statistics? Recommendations from well known and respected individuals and institutions? Letters to the editor. Other than your own? Many people have said this sounds like a scam here but you keep on promoting it. Who asks for 50,000 dollars from anybody in donations? Why are most of the organizations on your website listed as groups you WILL work with once you are “on the ground and running.” Why are 2 of the 4 partner groups you list at PO Boxes, and one has no address? Who are you trying to convince? It’s all the same geezers here, mostly, including myself.
@ robin@longhornproject.org:
Leket Israel feeds 1000’s daily.
As in all countries many homeless are homeless by choice.
Instead of you running your longhorn project? why don’t you join forces with leket.
@ robin@longhornproject.org:
Who says that children or indeed anyone needs to eat meat. I haven’t eaten meat for over 50 years, and i wasn’t kid when I began, Hasn’t done me any harm in fact I believe the opposite.
By the way, what do you do with the money you collect for your project…?? It’s in a sequestered account I suppose…??
The Abandonment of Israel’s Poor
Help the poor children of Israel who cannot afford meat even for the holidays.
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Our lack unity and support for Israel. Shows our enemies that we are weak. In the Middle east, the stronger we are, the more we are Respected!
A simple way of showing our strength and doing a major “Mitzvah for Israel,” is by helping The Israel Longhorn Project.
Year one $120,000; year two $140,000; years three through six $315,000 will make project self-supporting.
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How much poverty in Israel?
A report issued by the OECD in 2016 ranks Israel as the country with the highest rates of poverty among its members. Approximately 21 percent of Israelis were found to be living under the poverty line – more than in countries such as Mexico, Turkey, and Chile. The OECD average is a poverty rate of 11 percent.
Standard of living in Israel – Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard_of_living_in_Israel
Israel’s standard of living is significantly higher than that of most other countries in the region,
1.8 million Israelis, 842,000 of them children, under poverty line …
https://www.timesofisrael.com/1-8-million-israelis-842000-of-them-children-under-po…
Dec 6, 2017 – People walk by a homeless man sleeping on the street, near cafes in … above their share of the Israeli families in the general population. … still be poor, though her condition is much improved as compared to previous years.
More than 1 in 5 Israelis live in poverty, highest in developed world …
https://www.jpost.com/Israel…/More-than-1-in-5-Israelis-live-in-poverty-highest-in-de…
Dec 15, 2016 – “1.7 million people in Israel living under the poverty line. … most in need, the elderly,” Kroch said, adding there remains “much to be done.”.
Articles are frequently duplicated…..like this one.
It seems that the information gleaned from the bombing of the 50 Iranian installations has not gone unnoticed, and that military onlookers of other countries have taken note that the extra added Israeli avionics have made ALL the difference. What had happened about the 202 flaws in design that the F-35 was supposed by nearly all experts to have, making it too unwieldy, slow, and lacking space for certain weapons… Has this also been rectified or were they just theoretical defects that don’t show up in actual use……?