Could I get a reality check for this? Does it mean anything? What exactly is a Nour missile?
5m ago / 9:52 AM MDT
Hezbollah fires 'Nour missile' into northern Israel
Hezbollah said in a statement that it fired a “Nour missile” at Israel, which sources familiar with the Lebanese militant group told Reuters is a ballistic missile. The missile hit the village of Kafr Giladi in northern Israel, the statement said, adding that it had fired it in response to “Israeli violations of cities, villages, and civilians.” It was the first time they have used the missile, the statement said.
President Joe Biden called for a cease-fire “right now” when asked whether he was comfortable with Israeli plans to invade Lebanon. “I’m more aware than you might know and I’m comfortable with them stopping,” he told reporters at the White House.
While giving them billions in more bombs and arms to fuel their war. Just already.
Are antiship missiles substantially different to cruise missiles? I think most are a type of cruise missile with the ability to make targeting adjustments on the way in
Not a military expert but most antiship missiles I've heard of tend to fly low and fast to strike the side of the ship and make it sink; as opposed to ballistic missiles which are fired in tall unguided arcs that impact the target from a steep angle which can make them penetrate bunkers and destroy buildings more effectively.
Yeah, "cruise" in cruise missile refers to flying like a plane, which modern ones tend to fly low to evade RADAR. Typically cruise missiles are much much slower than ballistic missiles, but everyone is throwing money at hypersonic descent cruise missiles (basically, the last dozen miles the missile accelerates and jinks to make it hard for defenders to shoot down). Anti-ship missiles I think are just cruise missiles that can track a target (traditionally, buildings and ammo dumps don't move to evade fire)
(also, idk why I wound up being the missile nerd in the war nerd thread. I think people have lost interest in it since the first year of the Ukraine war as Ukraine has run out of missiles to shoot with or shoot down with)
At some stage, but either they burned through them, they never arrived, or didn't do very much. Whatever else is going on, people aren't talking about big missiles as regularly
Could I get a reality check for this? Does it mean anything? What exactly is a Nour missile?
While giving them billions in more bombs and arms to fuel their war. Just
already.
might be this one?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noor_(missile)
As some wise soul on telegram pointed out, why fire an anti-ship missile at land? To make a point?
Are antiship missiles substantially different to cruise missiles? I think most are a type of cruise missile with the ability to make targeting adjustments on the way in
Not a military expert but most antiship missiles I've heard of tend to fly low and fast to strike the side of the ship and make it sink; as opposed to ballistic missiles which are fired in tall unguided arcs that impact the target from a steep angle which can make them penetrate bunkers and destroy buildings more effectively.
Yeah, "cruise" in cruise missile refers to flying like a plane, which modern ones tend to fly low to evade RADAR. Typically cruise missiles are much much slower than ballistic missiles, but everyone is throwing money at hypersonic descent cruise missiles (basically, the last dozen miles the missile accelerates and jinks to make it hard for defenders to shoot down). Anti-ship missiles I think are just cruise missiles that can track a target (traditionally, buildings and ammo dumps don't move to evade fire)
(also, idk why I wound up being the missile nerd in the war nerd thread. I think people have lost interest in it since the first year of the Ukraine war as Ukraine has run out of missiles to shoot with or shoot down with)
Werent they supposed to get a bunch of long range missiles from the UK to shoot at Russia?
At some stage, but either they burned through them, they never arrived, or didn't do very much. Whatever else is going on, people aren't talking about big missiles as regularly
No, this is a cruise missile.