Obama's Administration, which apparently has little knowledge of or use for military systems, does not seem to grasp that the use of the Longbow's mast-mounted sensor suite enables it to more carefully select targets that other variants of the Apache, which in and of themselves are a better targeting, surveillance, and attack system than most alternatives.

Nor do they seem to grasp that the close air support function of helicopters with lighter weapons loads is less likely to cause the collateral deaths of civilians than other weapons systems that would have to step into the suppression role that helicopters typically occupy.

Artillery units (in Israel, typically 155mm self-propelled howitzers) fire salvos of "dumb" high explosive or incendiary shells that either burst above the target (spraying shrapnel over a wide area), point detonate on impact, or less frequently, on a time delay that lets them penetrate structures before exploding.

In a move that a cynic might note may be designed to save their $900 million investment in Hamas, the Obama Administration has stepped in to block the sale of six Apache helicopters to Israel and also stopped the integration of the Spike missile system with the Apache's millimeter wave radar.

Obama stupidly thinks

I agree and that's his main problem, that and the fact he's so into himself as well as being in so far over his head it's pathetic.

Israel will strike Iran and I'm sure Obama, like the UN and his all his new Muslim friends, will verbally attack Israel in the global arena.

Israel will be chastised simply because they had the Audacity of Hope to remain alive, and rejected getting annihilated just to make Hussien look good in the eyes of the Muslim world.