PPN World News Headlines - 14 Oct 2024
• US THAAD missiles for Israel • Russia's glide bombs
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00:00At least four soldiers have been killed and around 60 others severely wounded in a Hezbollah
00:19drone attack on an army base in central Israel.
00:22It's the deadliest strike by the militant group on Israeli territory since the IDF launched
00:27its ground operation into Lebanon nearly two weeks ago.
00:30Hezbollah said the attack near Binyaminah was in retaliation for Israeli strikes on
00:35Beirut on Thursday that killed 22 people.
00:39The group also said it launched dozens of missiles to occupy Israeli air defense systems,
00:44which set off air raid sirens further north in the city of Haifa.
00:57The Pentagon has confirmed the Biden administration is planning to send a missile defense system
01:01to Israel to protect against any Iranian threats.
01:04It also says U.S. troops will be deployed to operate that system.
01:08It's known as THAAD.
01:10The Terminal High Altitude Area Defense requires 95 soldiers to operate it.
01:15It's highly effective in shooting down short, medium and intermediate range ballistic missiles.
01:19It can hit targets as far as 200 kilometers away.
01:23It consists of six truck-mounted launchers, 48 interceptors, radio and radar equipment.
01:38Late at night in Kharkiv, many people were in bed when a blast tore through their neighborhood.
01:45Ukrainian officials say this was the work of a new, game-changing Russian weapon known
01:51as a glide bomb.
01:58Glide bombs are cheap to produce and Russia's using them to terrorize Ukrainian cities.
02:06They use old Soviet-era ammunition, some with over a ton of explosives, retrofitted with
02:12wings and GPS.
02:22The U.S. Department of Defense has confirmed the Biden administration is planning to send
02:27a missile defense system to Israel to protect against any Iranian threats.
02:32It's known as THAAD.
02:34It's known as THAAD.
02:36It's known as THAAD.
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03:10Tensions on the Korean Peninsula are escalating as North Korea ordered its artillery corps
03:15near the border with South Korea to be fully prepared to shoot.
03:19According to the North's state-run Korean Central News Agency on Sunday, the general
03:23staff of the North Korean People's Army delivered an operation preparatory directive on Saturday
03:29to artillery combined forces near the border and units assigned important firepower missions
03:35to be ready for full-scale shooting by Saturday 8 PM.
03:39The regime's urge for readiness comes after the regime's claim of drone incursions on
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