Largest residential building in Gaza fails with airstrike 5

[bimr]

Limited information available as to the size of the weapon and the design and construction of the building.

However, it would seem that a building should be able to take more hits prior to failure.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/worl...-israeli-air-strike/ar-BB1gCB91?ocid=msedgntp

 

[RedSnake]

I would say it's this one.

Payeway GPS-guided version.

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[Alistair_Heaton]

I think that's a spice.

Those fins on the back of the paveway are pretty distinctive along with the front setup.

 

[RedSnake]

Payeway

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[RedSnake]

Not shore, I can't find any pictures of a spice that have does kind of wings at the back it feels like the angle is wrong.

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[RedSnake]

Spice

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[Alistair_Heaton]

It doesn't matter, as with all these things it takes someone that is willing to use these devices of destruction and has the skill to put them in the delivery envelope.

Which I am told is actually not as easy as it sounds. They might be "smart" but in a very autistic way.

 

[IRstuff]

GPS guidance makes more sense than laser guidance, since the laser designator might get obscured by the smoke and debris from the first round's impact.

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[Alistair_Heaton]

That area of the world is jammed to hell GPS wise. There is also spoofing going on.

I would be extremely surprised if it wasn't jammed if it was what they say it was.

 

[1503-44]

No GPS? No problem.

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[FacEngrPE]

GNSS (GPS) signals can be supplemented by either onboard inertial guidance platforms (expensive) or technologies like eLoran (

https://gps.stanford.edu/research/early-research/loran-and-eloran)

(expensive but easier to share costs over many users).

 

[IRstuff]

The GPS-guided munitions are typically integrated with inertial navigation, ala dead reckoning sensors; but these bombs are difficult to steer, in any case, so once on course, they'll likely stay on course.

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[RedSnake]

The high-rise building they demolished had editorial offices of several international media outlets.
Probably why they warned them of before bombing it.
Not good publicity bombing foreign countries news reporters.
And if there where Hamas people there why then warn in advance?

"The news agency AP, which is one of the media that has its editorial office in the building, writes that they have not received any explanation as to why the building was bombed."

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[IRstuff]

The building supposedly housed some offices of Hamas, as well

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[hokie66]

I think you are now talking about another building. This thread was started on 11 May, and the building with AP and others was bombed on 15 May.

 

[Spartan5]

This thread is pretty out of place as this forum goes.

The Israeli military attack Saturday on a Gaza Strip high-rise housing the offices of media outlets including the Associated Press and Al Jazeera prompted international outrage and condemnation from media freedom advocates.

The airstrike obliterated a 12-story building, which also contained numerous residential apartments. Journalists and other tenants had evacuated after receiving a warning an hour before the missiles struck, and no casualties have been reported.

The Committee to Protect Journalists demanded a “detailed and documented justification” for the airstrike, noting that it could represent a violation of international law.

“This latest attack on a building long known by Israel to house international media raises the specter that the Israel Defense Forces is deliberately targeting media facilities in order to disrupt coverage of the human suffering in Gaza,” Joel Simon, the organization’s executive director, said in a statement.

“Knowingly causing the destruction of the offices of some of the world’s largest and most influential news organization raises deeply worrying questions about Israel’s willingness to interfere with the freedom of the press to operate,” the Foreign Press Association in Jerusalem said in a Saturday statement. “At a time when Israel’s border crossing with Gaza is closed, those companies with a bureau in Gaza are more important than ever in reporting events to the world.”

The attack took place one day after Israel’s military was accused of misleading foreign journalists by announcing it had launched a ground invasion of the Gaza Strip, then retracting that claim an hour later. While a spokesperson blamed internal confusion, Israeli media outlets have suggested that officials were deliberately spreading misinformation that would encourage Hamas militants to position themselves where they would be vulnerable to airstrikes.

In the wake of Saturday’s airstrikes, some observers pointed out that the Associated Press was one of the few international news outlets that responded to the announcement with skepticism and did not report that a ground invasion had begun.

The Associated Press said that a dozen of the newswire’s journalists and freelancers were inside the building when they received a warning that it would be hit. All managed to evacuate, narrowly averting a catastrophe.

“We are shocked and horrified that the Israeli military would target and destroy the building housing AP’s bureau and other news organizations in Gaza. They have long known the location of our bureau and knew journalists were there,” the AP’s president and chief executive, Gary Pruitt, said in a statement.

 

[1503-44]

Seems like a discussion about various methods of remotely controlled demolition resulting in total disaster. One might even call it engineered. A back yard tinkerer would be hard pressed to do it.

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