> Get there now or you won’t have a home to land in

Really? A country that engages with neighbours that are barely able to send primitive missiles, while its last generation (US) jets drop bombs straight on their capital cities any time they want, with total impunity? And you still repeat this "poor existentially threatened country" propaganda?

He is referring to highly specific types of situations, not speaking in a generic sense. It’s not about propaganda, it’s just a simple consequence of the region they’re in.

As a side note, terrorists successfully attack highly developed economies all the time. Having good jets doesn’t magically negate that possibility.

Even to the extent this is true (which it isn’t entirely), it’s basically only been true overnight.

Israel has only recently become as strong as it is. Until very recently it could very well lose, and has lost, wars with its neighbors.

False. You can see this from the number of losses they suffered in their military campaigns: a tiny number of casualties compared to those inflicted to their enemies. Besides, it has been clear for many decades that the US would do absolutely anything to protect Israel, which means that the forces Israel can count on to defend itself in case of a real existential threat are basically those of the entire USA.

Define "recently". They absolutely wrecked their next-door neighbors in the Six-Day War and that was over half a century ago.

They came very close to a defeat in the first Yom Kippur war.

For reference, this is called 'battleshort'. Overriding normal/safe operating limits in order to escape a situation that would destroy the vehicle anyway.

And all military vehiclrs have that!