Comments on: The Wounds of Gaza http://palestinethinktank.com/2009/02/04/the-wounds-of-gaza/ Free Minds for a Free Palestine Sat, 21 Nov 2009 01:10:11 +0300 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: zahra http://palestinethinktank.com/2009/02/04/the-wounds-of-gaza/#comment-9343 zahra Wed, 03 Jun 2009 17:26:20 +0000 http://palestinethinktank.com/2009/02/04/the-wounds-of-gaza/#comment-9343 <a href='#comment-6099' rel="nofollow">@milosevic</a> - i think we shouldnt miss the point.The point is they have been bombed daily and night. @milosevic –

i think we shouldnt miss the point.The point is they have been bombed daily and night.

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]]> By: milosevic http://palestinethinktank.com/2009/02/04/the-wounds-of-gaza/#comment-6099 milosevic Thu, 05 Feb 2009 11:58:28 +0000 http://palestinethinktank.com/2009/02/04/the-wounds-of-gaza/#comment-6099 quote: <i>Over the period of 27 December 2008 to the ceasefire of 18 Jan 2009, it was estimated that a million and a half tons of explosives were dropped on Gaza Strip.</i> It was estimated where? 1.5 million tons / 20 days = 75000 tons / day Suppose the IDF terrorists have 250 airplanes in action, surely an overestimate. Then each airplane has to drop 300 one-ton bombs every day, which is about one every five minutes, around the clock. The maximum bomb-load for an F-15E is twelve tons. Therefore each plane has to fly twenty-five times per day, returning to base to re-arm after each one. This doesn't account for helicopter rockets and 155mm artillery shells, which weigh only a small fraction of one ton each. It still doesn't seem possible. Perhaps this estimate has one or two zeros too many? quote:
Over the period of 27 December 2008 to the ceasefire of 18 Jan 2009, it was estimated that a million and a half tons of explosives were dropped on Gaza Strip.

It was estimated where?

1.5 million tons / 20 days = 75000 tons / day

Suppose the IDF terrorists have 250 airplanes in action, surely an overestimate. Then each airplane has to drop 300 one-ton bombs every day, which is about one every five minutes, around the clock.
The maximum bomb-load for an F-15E is twelve tons. Therefore each plane has to fly twenty-five times per day, returning to base to re-arm after each one.

This doesn't account for helicopter rockets and 155mm artillery shells, which weigh only a small fraction of one ton each. It still doesn't seem possible. Perhaps this estimate has one or two zeros too many?

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