• EmmaGoldman [she/her, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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      6 months ago

      I thought they didn’t have an icbm program, but maybe not?

      It should be general knowledge at this point that Israel’s MO is basically to tell you “no we’re not doing this” while absolutely doing it and then all but openly bragging about it in Hebrew-language media.

      General Itzhak Ben-Israel, former head of Maf’at (Israeli Directorate of Defense, Research and Development) said of the then in-development 3 stage extended range variant of the Jericho III “Everybody can do the mathematics… we can reach with a rocket engine to every point in the world.” This three stage variant capable of 11,500km is the Jericho IV missile. That CRS Missile Survey document gives information on the Jericho III and technically the Jericho IV as the 3 stage version was spun off into that version.

      I can’t really give you harder evidence than a direct US government report that covers the missile in question, it’s not like Israel (or anyone else) is just publishing the full spec sheets for civilians to peruse or anything. I’ll admit that it does suck that the best documentation available on this is 20 years old, but feel free to submit a FOIA request.