Sunday, July 16, 2006
Hezbollah Missile Primer
Here is a very brief article on the types of missiles Hezbollah is using to bombard Israel. The relatively small Qassam is probably strictly from Gaza, where they are hand made by the hundreds and hundreds; real pip-squeaks next to the mighty Fajr-5.
For comparison, the warhead on the ATACMS rocket, which fires from the M270 MLRS mobile rocket launcher, carries between 353 and around 1200 pounds of bomblets, 592 pounds of 13 BAT submunitions, or a 500 pound unitary explosive. So the Fajr-5 is pretty big.
Hezbollah claimed to have 12,000 rockets (the Israelis agreed there were probably 10,000 Katushas alone). How many have they fired already?
For comparison, the warhead on the ATACMS rocket, which fires from the M270 MLRS mobile rocket launcher, carries between 353 and around 1200 pounds of bomblets, 592 pounds of 13 BAT submunitions, or a 500 pound unitary explosive. So the Fajr-5 is pretty big.
Hezbollah claimed to have 12,000 rockets (the Israelis agreed there were probably 10,000 Katushas alone). How many have they fired already?
# posted by Roger Fraley @ 10:12 PM 
