Something kicking off in Israel

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Ok tiny split shot weight crimped to piano wire in 6” lengths……. How about that?
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Maybe. But it comes down to distance, accuracy, the number of rotors and other factors we don’t need to get into. My point was more that the shotgun isn’t the answer many think it is.

If a drone is within shotgun distance odds are you are already screwed.
 
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Well 320mio$ pier to nowhere just started falling apart and then recovery vessels washed up on shore as well.

The Times of Isreal's military correspondent Emanuel Fabian has reported that "An American vessel used to unload humanitarian aid from ships into the Gaza Strip via a floating pier disconnected from a small boat tugging it this morning due to stormy seas, leading it to get stuck on the coast of Ashdod, eyewitnesses say."

The recovery operation has not gone well either, as "Another ship was then sent to try and extract the stuck vessel, but also got beached," Fabian writes.
And yet a second US Army vessel also got stuck in shallow waters while trying to rescue the pier section. Overnight US ships had been moving two pieces of the floating pier to the Port of Ashdod in southern Israel when the now beached section detached and drifted away. American troops can be seen in footage standing helplessly on the beach.
An official US Central Command (CENTCOM) statement says the following:
This morning four U.S. Army vessels supporting the maritime humanitarian aid mission in Gaza were affected by heavy sea states. The vessels broke free from their moorings and two vessels are now anchored on the beach near the pier.
The third and fourth vessels are beached on the coast of Israel near Ashkelon. Efforts to recover the vessels are under way with assistance from the Israeli Navy.
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The pier operation was already last week off to a rough start -- and was paused for two days -- after desperate Palestinians mobbed and ransacked the first trucks transporting aid unloaded from the pier before they could reach a distribution warehouse managed by the World Food
The pier has been center of controversy, given a number of land routes for aid into Gaza are possible, but have been blocked by Israel's military.
Now, to mitigate that devastation amid reports of famine the US government has spent $320 million to build a pier to bypass its own beneficiary's land-route blockade. But operating it has proven tricky especially due to inclement conditions in the eastern Mediterranean.
At best, the pier will only put a dent in the daunting humanitarian challenge. "I just want to be clear that this humanitarian maritime corridor alone is not enough to meet the staggering needs in Gaza, but it is an important addition," said USAID Levant response management team director Daniel Dieckhaus. "It is meant to augment, not replace or substitute for land crossings into Gaza."

At this point, with a section of the pier stuck on an Israel beach, and coming over two months after President Biden first unveiled the ambitious project, the whole initiative is becoming a bit of an embarrassment involving setback after setback.









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Waves sweep away US-built floating pier in Gaza

Israeli navy helping to connect separated part, according to Israeli media - Anadolu Ajansı
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7.62willdo said:
Shit happens in war……
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Yup and I don’t see anyone condemning Hamas/Palestine for not returning the hostages. All of this would be de-escalated if they would return the hostages and surrender. Their goal is to play the propaganda war to prevent Israel from winning. Personally, I think the entire world should just stay out of it and let whatever happens happen but Israel is solely responsible for taking care of Palestinian refugees. We or any other nation don’t want them. They are Islamic radicals and they need to stay in that part of the world.
 
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Gaza Pier Operations Suspended Indefinitely After It Breaks Apart By Heavy Seas​

"The pier will be removed from its location on the Gaza coast over the next 48 hours and taken to the Israeli port of Ashdod," Singh explained, indicating further that the repairs will take at least a week. Aid trucks were only able to roll off of it with maritime-delivered aid over a period of a handful of days before it broke.

Looks like Bidenomics and 'Build back better'' in action , now only thing missing is some spat around pronouns used by the army while making the pier.

Can you imagine as costs balloon $$$ this ends up a half a billion pier to nowhere that fell apart after less than 60 trucks drove over it.
Maybe Hunter or his palls were involved


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Seems like a reliable and objective source:

SouthFront (sometimes written South Front) is a multilingual website registered in Russia and based in Crimea.[1] It has been accused by multiple sources of being an outlet for disinformation and propaganda under the control of the Russian government. For this reason, it has been sanctioned by the US Treasury and banned by social media platforms.
 
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Just one of the ports on Normandy beaches , if Brandon ordered this to be replicated US defense budget would probably not suffice , given Gaza pier for 320+mio lasted 2 weeks before it fell apart,

imagine this was 'assembled' in combat conditions on every one of the landing beaches in matter of days , not 3 months like Gaza Pier , note Atlantic at Normandy is some of the roughest sea and has a considerable tidal motion ,
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