andydp
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Jan 30, 2024 18:50:54 GMT
Post by andydp on Jan 30, 2024 18:50:54 GMT
Many years ago, an older Sergeant told us: "Just because they don't speak English doesn't mean they're stupid." This is a condensation of a NYT article. Rest of it is paywalled to me. The article also noted how Hamas found a sunken WWI English ship and is actually using the munitions on it. Case in point: Significant number of Hamas weapons come from IDF duds, NYT reportsHamas gets a “significant number” of its weapons from IDF duds, reports The New York Times, citing Israeli and Western intelligence officials, and a former senior Israeli police officer. Intelligence gleaned during the ongoing war in Gaza has helped Israel understand that it badly underestimated the number of rockets and other explosives Hamas was able to create from munitions that failed to detonate. One Western military official says that most of Hamas’s explosives used in the war have come from unexploded IDF shells and missiles. An Israeli intelligence officer tells NYT that the failure rate for IDF munitions fired into Gaza could be as high as 15 percent.
www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/significant-number-of-hamas-weapons-come-from-idf-misfires-nyt-reports/
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jackd
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Jan 30, 2024 21:28:41 GMT
Post by jackd on Jan 30, 2024 21:28:41 GMT
I wonder what's causing the high failure rate. Aren't many (most?) of those weapons coming from the U.S.?
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andydp
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Jan 30, 2024 22:54:25 GMT
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Post by andydp on Jan 30, 2024 22:54:25 GMT
I wonder what's causing the high failure rate. Aren't many (most?) of those weapons coming from the U.S.? The article mentions the age of some munitions. My experience has been there are always “duds” in ammo regardless of age.
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