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6 Sep, 3 tweets, 3 min read
Belmondo in "The Professional": one of the characters at the end was Steve (aka Radiša Jovanović Stiv, born as Novica Živković) who in the early eighties, together with Bruno Sulak (Legionaire), was known as a "gentleman thief", tricking French police over and over again.

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Interestingly, the final scene of the movie will happen in 1984 when Steve was executed by the French police while walking toward the helicopter... There are rumours that the movie was partially financed by the "gentlemen thieves" as a defiance to the French police

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They are considered as the first "Pink Panthers" - network responsible for many spectacular robberies described as some of the most audacious in the history of organized crime.

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When Israel attacked the US:

on 8 June 1967 Israeli Air Force jets and navy torpedo boats attacked the USS Liberty - "research" ship (actually a spy ship) that was in international waters north of the Sinai Peninsula, about 47 km northwest of the Egyptian city of Arish.

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Prior to the attack, Israeli recce planes flew over the ship and clearly identified it.

The combined attacks hat follow was executed by 2 Mirage III, 2 Mystère IV and 3 torpedo boats.

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Mirages (piloted by Iftach Spector and Moshe Oren attacked the ship with a cannon fire killed 8 and wounded 75. After them, a pair of Mystère IV (Yossi Zuk and Yaakov Hamermish) bombed the ship with napalm.


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7 Jun
On this day, 7 June 1981, one of the most daring bombing missions in history took place. 8 Israeli Air Force F-16 bombed Iraqi nuclear reactor in al-Tuwaitha. This attack was the final blow to Sadam's nuclear program. Preparation for this Operation Opera started much earlier.
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to exploits radar cover gaps in Iraqi AD culminating the precise timing when Iraqis are the most vulnerable-time for an evening meal when the radars & launchers crews are relaxed, turning off their radars. This repeating time frame became a pattern that was dully recorded.

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Few stills from recently published Hamas video: inground rudimentary built launcher. Shaped metal case to slide the rocket in with grooves to release the motor blast. There is no point of any precision, rather a rough angle dig in direction of a particular Israeli target.

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A little bit of trigonometry to get the approximate launching angle, cover to protect against IDF surveillance, small shop welded "launching tube" and few guys to dig. It can be many hundreds of these inground launchers all around and in Gaza.

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recent Hamas propaganda video 👇
The "crew" covers the launcher to protect from IDF surveillance. IDF most likely pinpoint the place (for example by IR camera) and bomb it, but to co-op with that, launchers are position in a wider area.

With this, every bit of clear space is a potential launcher area.

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The Iron Dome missile guidance shall bring the missile to the optimal engagement position. The interceptors missile don’t hit the incoming rockets directly, rather explode very close to them. The detonation is triggered by the interceptor rocket’s proximity fuse.

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For the defender, if the calculated impact point is disrupted, it is often presented as a successful intercept, but in reality if the warhead explode anywhere in Gaza or Israel (and cause the casualties) it can't be counted toward the successful interception rate.

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... after some time it reappeared openly... firstly in one small area in the Balkans, then started more on the east... for this virus, there is a vaccine, but the mutated virus took the vaccine "manufacturers" and embedded itself in the governments and treaties...

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The developer claim that such virtual CP system is almost impossible to destroy with conventional weapons. The typical unit may consist of 4-6 TEL. Each TEL has 4 missiles with a maximum range of 280 km. AD includes 🇺🇦 OEM detection and targeting X, C and S-band radars.

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Theoretically, AD system can simultaneously engage 12 targets of which can be 6 ballistic (guiding 4 missiles per target) or up to 16 aerodynamic targets (guiding 2 missiles per target). AD system will use an active millimeter-wave radar homing head.

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