The IDF also targeted smuggling tunnels, rocket firing pits, weapon mills and munitions warehouses.Īnd the other groups had lots of underground targets that were attacked," White said, further speculating that the additional weapons “"Could be an effort to give the Israeli Air Force a capability for more extended or more extensive air campaigns than before." According to the Bloomsberg report, the bombs are intended to "defeat an enemy’s most critical and hardened targets such as protected weapons storage sites, and penetrate as much as six feet of reinforced concrete."Īccording to Jeff White, a military analyst with the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, the aid package is partly motivated by Washington's desire to assist Israel in replenishing its munitions stockpile which was diluted following November's campaign against Gaza Strip's terror groups.ĭuring the campaign, Israel dropped numerous bombs on Gaza in an attempt to halt rocket and missile fire. The military aid includes 1,725 JDAM tail kits together with BLU-109 bombs, also dubbed "bunker-buster" and weighing in at more than 900kg. US military aid would delay Israeli strike.US supplies Egypt with F-16 fighter jets.
With a tail kit system used to convert free-fall bombs into satellite-guided ordnance, as well as with missiles that can be mounted on F-15 and F-16 fighter jets and are capable of penetrating underground or fortified targets. The Pentagon has appealed to Congress in a bid to increase the United States' military aid to IsraelĪccording to a Bloomberg report, in wake of Operation Pillar of Defense,
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