Quote (Many_Names @ May 15 2011 11:54am)
Goomshill its seems you lost your patients how can you call 5 nations and 4 armies kids with rocks?
$1.3 billion to develop the Lavi aircraft (cancelled)
$625 million to develop and deploy the Arrow anti-missile missile (an ongoing project) we didn't deploy any of these yet it is a defensive weapon.
$200 million to develop the Merkava tank (operative); the latest version, the Merkava 4, uses a German V-12 diesel engine produced under license in the U.S. by General Dynamics the uses the same thing aren't they?
$130 million to develop the high-energy laser anti-missile system (ongoing). we develope the lasr but it seems we won't see this weapon here, if we did we could just sit back and relaxx.
ALL AFTER 1973.
israel has been getting its weapons from america and the west since 1948, not "since 1973".
sorry to shatter your delusions of israeli singularity.
screw "giving them money to make guns", thats barely anything compared to the vast amount of guns/planes/etc they got directly.
For example, operation balak.
Quote
Infantry weapons
34,500 P 18 rifles
5,515 MG 34 machine guns with 10,000 ammo belts
10,000 bayonets vz.24
900 vz. 37 heavy machine guns
500 vz. 27 pistols
[edit]Other infantry weapons
12 ZK-383 submachine guns
10 ZK 420 semi-automatic rifles
500 vz. 26 light machine guns (shipped, yet delivery not confirmed in Czech sources)
[edit]Ammunition
91,500,000 7,92 x 57 mm cartridges
15,000,000 9mm Parabellum cartridges
375,000 13mm cartridges for MG 131
150,000 20mm cartridges for MG 151
375,000 7.65mm cartridges for vz. 27 pistol
[edit]Aircraft
25 Avia S-199 fighters
61 Supermarine Spitfire Mk. IX fighters
Lots of leftover german weapons for the israelis to purchase from a west proxy, eh?
This post was edited by Goomshill on May 15 2011 12:11pm
Guests cannot view or vote in polls. Please register or login.