Its curious name, Delilah is as strange as the havoc it wreaks. This Israeli AS missile can attack moving targets 250km away. Besides, it can loiter, waiting for it’s victim -maybe the car is passing through a tunnel – to appear. Those are two crucial capabilities reserved only for the top notch: loitering and the ability to attack a moving target. But there is more.
Israel has developed a hyperglide missile, Rampage, which has probably entered service or will any moment from now. Whereas Delilah, if fired from, say Benin City to hit a car coming out of FESTAC will strike in about 4 minutes, Rampage will hit its target in about a minute at about Mach-10.
Weapons are so dangerous now that it seems the fear of them is actually preventing major outbreaks of war. Everybody is afraid in a special way and that is why the President of Pakistan is in Washington looking for peace with India over Kashmir even though he has nuclear bombs. He understands that war with India will reduce both nations to mere dust and it is with a sliver of luck that they will have a handful of pathetic survivors, skeletons in rags with irradiated genome. The MAD (mutually assured destruction/death) doctrine is gradually growing outside of the nuclear envelope into conventional warfare as well with the rise of extremely fast missiles, drones, micro drones and swarm drones. When you factor in the possibility of mounting of chemical and biological agents on these new delivery platforms, there is only a very thing hope that the world will know peace for much longer unless there are immediate arms treaties and bans on certain areas of weapons development.
