(Algemeiner) Benjamin Kerstein - This week the Israel Air Force undertook a massive exercise simulating a full-scale war with Hizbullah. One of its main objectives was to destroy all threats to IAF aircraft, especially Russian and Iranian surface-to-air missiles. A senior IAF officer said more than 3,000 targets a day were hit. By comparison, during the 2006 Second Lebanon War, the IAF hit an average of 100 targets a day. Veteran Israeli analyst Ehud Yaari described the exercise as a warning to Hizbullah, "demonstrating how a massive first strike may affect Hizbullah's missile arsenal all over Lebanon in a single day."
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