Well, it seems that US tax-payers never mind paying... be it $ 700 billion or more...
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U.S. Deploys Radar, Troops To Israel
Published: 26 Sep 12:14 EDT (16:14 GMT)
U.S. European Command (EUCOM) has deployed to Israel a high-powered X-band radar and the supporting people and equipment needed for coordinated defense against Iranian missile attack, marking the first permanent U.S. military presence on Israeli soil.
More than a dozen aircraft, including C-5s and C-17s, helped with the Sept. 21 delivery of the AN/TPY-2 Transportable Radar Surveillance/Forward Based X-band Transportable (FBX-T), its ancillary components and some 120 EUCOM personnel to Israel's Nevatim Air Base southeast of Beersheba, said sources here and in Stuttgart, Germany.
Among the U.S. personnel is at least one representative from the Missile Defense Agency (MDA), though officials said the agency had little to no say in the deployment decision. MDA involvement has been confined to providing equipment and advice on technical aspects of its deployment, one official said.
The Raytheon-built FBX-T system is the same phased-array radar that was deployed to northern Japan with the U.S. Pacific Air Forces (PACAF) in 2006. The high-powered, high-frequency, transportable X-band radar is designed to detect and track ballistic missiles soon after launch.
Its ancillary gear included cooling systems, generators, perimeter defense weaponry, logistics supplies and dozens of technicians, maintenance specialists and security forces to operate and defend the U.S. installation.
EUCOM has repeatedly deployed troops and Patriot air defense batteries for joint exercises and Iraq-related wartime contingencies, but has never before permanently deployed troops on Israeli soil.
A EUCOM spokesman declined to comment. MDA officials referred to the U.S. State Department, which did not provide comment by press time.
An Israeli military spokesman said the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) enjoys longstanding strategic cooperation with all branches of the U.S. military.
"This cooperation is varied and comes in multiple forms, and it is not our practice to discuss details of our bilateral activities," he said.
Nevertheless, in previous interviews, U.S. and Israeli officials confirmed that the X-band deployment plan was approved in July, first by Adm. Mike Mullen, chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff, and his Israeli counterpart, Lt. Gen. Gabi Ashkenazi; and then by. U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates and Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak.
The radar will be linked to the U.S. Joint Tactical Ground Station (JTAGS), which receives and processes threat data transmitted by U.S. Defense Support System satellites. According to U.S. and Israeli sources, JTAGS will remain in Europe, but its essential cueing data will stream into the forward-deployed X-band radar, where it instantaneously shares information with Israel's Arrow Weapon System.
Once operational, the combined U.S. and Israeli system is expected to double or even triple the range at which Israel can detect, track and ultimately intercept Iranian missiles, according to Lt. Gen. Henry Obering, director of the Pentagon's Missile Defense Agency.
During a visit to Israel in early August, Obering said the X-Band radar could add precious minutes to the time in which Israel has to respond to incoming missile attacks.
"The missile threat from Iran is very real, and we must stay ahead of the threat ... that's why we're working so hard with all our allies to put the most optimized, effective, anti-missile capabilities in place," Obering said.
"In the context of Israel, if we can take the radar out here and tie it into the Arrow Weapon System, they'll be able to launch that interceptor way before they could with an autonomous system," he added.
Ilan Biton, a brigadier general in the Israel Air Force (IAF) reserves and former commander of the nation's air defense forces, could not comment on the latest developments associated with the X-band radar. However, he said that an IAF air defense brigade established during his 2003-2006 tenure has continuously demonstrated its ability to interoperate well with American forces.
"We advanced tremendously on multiple levels and have developed very impressive cooperation," Biton said at a Sept. 22 conference in Herzliya. Referring to bilateral Juniper Cobra air defense exercises and the 2003 deployment of Patriot batteries prior to the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq, Biton noted: "At the human level, we've developed a common language and at the technical level, we've put in place the interfaces that allow our systems to speak to one another."
The end result, according to Biton, is a combined ability "to manage battles, execute debriefs and implement corrections, all in real time."
As U.S. public affairs officers last week mulled whether to publicly disclose the Israel deployment, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, at a U.N. General Assembly meeting in New York, continued to defend his country's nuclear enrichment and missile development program.
"Iran's [nuclear] activities are peaceful," Ahmadinejad said Sept. 23, adding that in Israel, "the Zionist regime is on a definite slope to collapse."
A U.S. government source said the X-band deployment and other bilateral alliance-bolstering activities send parallel messages: "First, we want to put Iran on notice that we're bolstering our capabilities throughout the region, and especially in Israel. But just as important, we're telling the Israelis, 'Calm down; behave. We're doing all we can to stand by your side and strengthen defenses, because at this time, we don't want you rushing into the military option.'"
But in Israel, frustration is mounting at what is roundly perceived as a lack of international resolve to halt Iran's nuclear weapons drive. At a Sept. 21 meeting of the Israeli Cabinet, an Israeli military intelligence officer reported that Iran is accelerating the pace at which it enriches uranium, and that Tehran already possesses possibly half of the fissionable material needed to produce its first nuclear warhead.
Reflecting Israeli concern about the ineffectiveness of sanctions against Tehran, Brig. Gen. Yossi Baidatz, head of Military Intelligence's research department, reported: "The international front against Iran is weak and not consolidated, and isn't putting enough pressure on the regime to stop enriching uranium."
According to selected excerpts from the briefing released by the Israeli Prime Minister's office, Baidatz warned that Iran is "galloping toward a nuclear bomb." He added, "The sanctions have very little influence and are far from bringing to bear a critical mass of pressure on Iran."
Vago Muradian contributed to this report from Washington, Barbara Opall-Rome from Tel Aviv.
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Like the ones that starved a million Iraqis to death?
..zionites are genocidal, supremacist bastards!!
Of course, their answer to the non-existent Iran-nukes dilemma the zoos have created, is either to starve people to death, or nuclear-bomb them (all) back to the dinosaur age.
How is it that they don't seem to consider nuclear fallout to be the next worse thing to starving to death, and exploding millions of innocent people?
Americans will be delighted to know that the US is now israel's official bitch and attack dog.
A few passages caught my eye...
That's a load of BS. israel wouldn't dare go it alone.
All talk, no action.
Besides, why would they? when they have their own super-power attack dog to do it for them.
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"Money" has no value - people do.
The MOSSAD must be licking their lips over having these targets in their backyard.
It won't be long before some type of attack against the US personnel occurs that will be blamed on Hezbollah and Syria or maybe even Gaza.
It will be a brutal and savage attack, one designed to get American blood boiling and demanding revenge.
All Israel has to do is to grab some prisoners out of their jails and leave them in the area to be shot up by Israeli's coming to "protect" the Americans.
And like 9/11, all sorts of clues will be planted on the Arabs sacrificed by the Israeli's to help with the MOSSAD attack will be left around.
CNN and FUX will broadcast 24/7 from Tel Aviv, lamenting the terrible loss of Americans and how the brave Israeli's rushed into harm's way to protect the Americans left that hadn't been murdered by Israeli's.
Might even be a recorded throat cutting or two, all blamed on those damned "Muzzies."
And all of this will be shown to have been financied by Iran.
I agree with you entirely. Israel is all talk and no action. The US for that matter is the same: all talk and media… but none of relates in any way to the truths on the ground. It is my belief that neither Israel nor the US can afford to attack Iran. The US will want to reach some sort of agreement with Iran.. and this is Israel’s nightmare. If Israel attacks Iran, it may cause Iran great harm, but it will definitely be the very quick end of Israel! Hallelujah! I don’t know if you were able to hear Nasrallah’s last 2 or 3 speeches this month, but he has militarily mocked Israel and the US in unbelievable manner… and even told them that “this was not 1967” (when Nasser was speaking rhetoric and delivering nothing but defeat)…. This is 2000 and 2006 when Israel endured complete and unquestionable defeats”. He even challenged Ehud Barak to send in more ground troops into Lebanon (since that is what Ehud has been bragging about since he became minister of War). Barak first said that he would send 5 battalions into south Lebanon, and then he said that he would send 8 battalions. Nasrallah answered him back by telling him that “if he sent 8 ground troops, it would be great news because we would eliminate them like in 2006 and during that time, there would hardly be any Israeli army left inside Israel proper to defend it since they be all in Lebanon trying their hand again:) At this point the Palestinian Resistance which has grown much stronger will easily take over in Israel!” Nasrallah than told Barak that” he would in fact prefer Barak to send 9 battalions and not just 8”… and laughed… “That way “he said, “we could get rid of this cancerous gland Israel once and for all!!!
So… that was to say that I agree with you:)