{"id":195591,"date":"2008-06-28T05:04:00","date_gmt":"2008-06-28T10:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/06\/28\/new-israeli-anti-kassam-missile-system\/"},"modified":"2008-06-28T05:04:00","modified_gmt":"2008-06-28T10:04:00","slug":"new-israeli-anti-kassam-missile-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/06\/28\/new-israeli-anti-kassam-missile-system\/","title":{"rendered":"New Israeli Anti-Kassam Missile System"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The system is called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aviationnow.com\/publication\/awst\/loggedin\/AvnowStoryDisplay.do?fromChannel=awst&amp;pubKey=awst&amp;issueDate=2008-06-23&amp;story=xml\/awst_xml\/2008\/06\/23\/AW_06_23_2008_p46-60601.xml&amp;headline=New+Israeli+Anti-Rocket+Projects+Move+Ahead\">David&#8217;s Sling<\/a> (<em>paid subscription required<\/em>), and it makes no sense at all.<\/p>\n<p>The system&#8217;s features:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A &#8220;Stunner&#8221; interceptor missile, with two stages and a 3 pulse motor for the interceptor.<\/li>\n<li>David&#8217;s sling has it&#8217;s own radar.<\/li>\n<li>Stunner has two seekers, a radar and an infrared seeker for terminal homing (see funky nose profile below)<\/li>\n<li>Potential integration with Rafael&#8217;s Spyder air defense system.<\/li>\n<li>A maximum range from 180 to 300 km.<\/li>\n<li>A blast-fragmentation warhead.<\/li>\n<li>Detection to intercept of 38 seconds.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>So, you&#8217;ve got a missile that weighs somewhere north of 500 pounds (bottom pic for scale), and will probably cost something well north of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/hasen\/spages\/947208.html\">$\u00bc million a piece<\/a>, and they will use it to intercept Kassams and Katyushas that cost something less than $100 and $1000 each respectively.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s sounds like a really good trade&#8230;.not.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img241.imageshack.us\/img241\/5573\/aw062320082522lcj7.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img50.imageshack.us\/img50\/2669\/stunnerlp6.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img382.imageshack.us\/img382\/7516\/olmertrafael5wapz1.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The system is called David&#8217;s Sling (paid subscription required), and it makes no sense at all. The system&#8217;s features: A &#8220;Stunner&#8221; interceptor missile, with two stages and a 3 pulse motor for the interceptor. David&#8217;s sling has it&#8217;s own radar. Stunner has two seekers, a radar and an infrared seeker for terminal homing (see funky &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1008,1159,1096],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-195591","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-defense-procurement","category-israel","category-missile-defense"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195591"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=195591"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195591\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}