Bobby. wrote on Oct 21
st, 2023 at 4:57am:
Will the war in Israel escalate?
My opinion:
Hezbollah has over 100,000 missiles in Lebanon.
Some may be high precision and capable of taking out all of Israel's air power
by attacking all the military airports and jet fighters on the ground.
I'm sure Hezbollah will at least do a test run
with a few missiles to see if that is possible.
Let me explain.
Guided missiles and cruise missiles use GPS as their first system but during a war
the weak GPS satellite signals are easily blocked by ground transmitters.
Israel is blocking GPS right now.
High tech missiles then transfer over to many other systems such as:
1) inertial guidance - very inaccurate and expensive,
2) radar ground terrain following using satellite information - which Iran won't have,
3) infra red camera terrain recognition for night time using AI to look for the best path,
4) ordinary camera with AI to do the same during the day.
Such systems have to all work together and be controlled by a master computer.
It looks like a trial run was already tried from Yemen but it didn't work:
https://www.timesofisrael.com/us-warship-in-red-sea-intercepts-3-missiles-fired-... Quote:US warship in Red Sea intercepts 3 missiles fired from Yemen, possibly at Israel
Land attack cruise missiles launched by Iranian-backed Houthi rebels were headed ‘potentially toward targets in Israel,’ Pentagon says
So - unless the test runs are successful, Hezbollah - Iran - may have to bow out of this conflict.