From Ma'an News AgencyThe Israeli newspaper Maariv has stated that the Israeli Air Force will start to decrease the frequency of its sorties, not as a result of international pressure, but due to the expected arrival of half a million migrating birds in the coming few weeks.
According to the Air Force, those birds cause harm to more than 200 military air flights each year. Last year alone, 70 collisions with migrating birds ended in material losses for the Air Force, causing the deaths of three pilots.
The damage incurred is dependant upon two factors: the speed of the aircraft and the weight of the bird. A bird weighing 800 grams will strike an F16, flying at a speed of 1000 km per hour, as if it weighed 15 tons. If the bird weighs 10 kilograms, its strike will equal 100 tons, the weight of two military tanks combined.
Image from Carleton University/ Department of Physics
After reading your first paragraph I got the impression that the life of a bird was more prrecious to the zionist beast than the life of a Lebanese civilian...
ReplyDeleteGood thing I read furthur... it's to save a plane... not a life!
Damn them to hell!
Whats that !!
ReplyDeleteThis is a piece of news taken from Maan News Agency, who learnt it from the Israeli newspaper Maariv.
ReplyDeleteIt is basically saying that the Israeli air force's decision of reducing the number of thier war-planes - for now - was because of the damage and casualties migratory birds might cause - damge to the planes and pilots, that is.
It was not because they wanted to reduce the number of civilians killed in air stikes. It was not even to save those poor birds.
It's physics, man!
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