Wednesday, March 21, 2012

Did Assad Transfer a Large Number of M-600 Rockets to Hezbollah?


Did Assad Transfer a Large Number of M-600 Rockets to Hezbollah?(IMRA).Israeli elements are attempting to discover whether Hezbollah possesses quantities of M-600 rockets.By Arie Egozi.
Israel is monitoring the movement of advanced weapon systems from Syria to Hezbollah and is attempting to learn if Assad’s regime transferred a large quantity of the improved M-600 heavy rocket to Lebanon.
The M-600 is an advanced Syrian-produced variant of the Iranian Fatah-110 rocket. Israel estimates that the Syrian chemical weapons industry will try to fit a chemical warhead on the M-600 rocket, as Syria’s military industry already produced chemical warheads for several variants of its Scud missiles. The rocket’s normal warhead weighs half a ton, and has a maximum range of 250 km. With such a range, the rocket threatens Israel’s northern border all the way south to Be’er Sheva.
It seems that Syria did transfer such rockets to Hezbollah, since the Fatah-110 rocket was developed by the Iranian weapon industry, and is launched from a rocket launcher similar to the SA-2 Surface-to-Air missile. The Fatah-110 has a warhead nearly twice the weight of the Scud missiles that were launched at Israel during the First Gulf War, which weighed about 300 kg. The length of the rocket is approximately 8 m, its diameter is 60 cm, and its total weight is about 3 tons.
According to Yiftah Shapir, a senior researcher at the Institute for National Security Studies (INSS), Syria’s president is allowing the transfer of any military system to Hezbollah. “Such a rocket in Hezbollah’s possession is a problem,” says Shapir. The David's Sling defense system
being developed by the Israeli company Rafael and the US company Raytheon, is intended to intercept rockets approximately the same size as the M-600.Read the full story here.

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