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So why is it more likely to be a JDAM airburst than a failed jihad rocket?

Especially when we have the live footage from al Jazeera of a failed launch followed by an explosion at the same time as the hospital explosion.



Israel has been bombing Gaza nonstop for the past week. The damage is consistent with a bomb airbursting, not a rocket falling and exploding. No crater. Damage from other rocket attacks is no where near the level of damage in this attack.

Here is the actual attack: https://twitter.com/WarMonitors/status/1714337776873640216

Find me any other Hamas rocket that does that much damage. Especially when broken up and falling to the ground.



Article only mentions the payload of one rocket, the Badr-3, which wasn’t the rocket used here according to you. So it is a useless link.

Go find physical evidence of a Hamas rocket doing the amount of damage that was done to the hospital.


https://www.reddit.com/r/CombatFootage/comments/1796w6q/the_...

This one seems to make a fairly significant blast, and that's one of the shorter range ones.


Blast looked smaller than a car, nowhere near the payload that was used on the hospital. Also range isn’t payload so not sure why it’s being mentioned.


Since usually longer range missiles tend to have higher payload.

Plus assuming most of the fuel is still intact since the rocket misfired it could easily generate a 2-3x bigger explosion.

And from the photos it's seems like the explosion at the hospital was about the size of 1-2 cars as well, so fairly similar imo.

And lastly, the explosion at the hospital seems to be ground level, airburst would be higher above the ground.

Anyway, so far the experts who agreed to talk claim it doesn't look like an Israeli rocket explosion

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-67144061


Disagree the explosion was only the size of two cars.

Airburst can happen wherever the fuse is designed to activate.

Here: https://twitter.com/BowesChay/status/1714654233847288050

Direct comparison of a JDAM and the hospital attack.


> Airburst can happen wherever the fuse is designed to activate.

Maybe, but if you are using airburst it doesn't make much sense to activate it at ground level since it defeats the purpose.

And again, the pictures taking during the day light show very little damage - the surrounding buildings are fully intact, so a JDAM just isn't likely, airburst or not.

Seems more like a fuel tank that blew up causing more fire type damage than anything.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/oct/18/al-ahli-arab-h...


just to make sure that we are aligned, what damage are we talking about ? small pothole on the parking lot, few burned cars and 5 clay tiles off the place on the roof ?


Answer what I asked. If you’re going to respond to my question with more questions that avoid answering what I asked, it makes it clear you have no intention of actually discussing this and are only here to post pro Israeli takes.


i just trying to ask what damage are you describing ? this https://twitter.com/Osinttechnical/status/171452559087357560... ? or some other damage ?




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