Iran arms “Hezbollah” with new missiles

Filed under:General — posted by webmaster on February 28, 2007 @ 6:01 pm

According to the latest Israeli investigation board’s data, Teheran is going to provide “Hezbollah” with new rockets, able to reach Israel’s territory targets.
These new rockets are likely to be delivered in course of “Hezbollah” rocket arsenal of tactical missiles of distant radius restoration, destroyed by Israel in the first days of the second Lebanese war.
These missiles have successfully passed tests in 2002 and for the first time have been presented to public on military parade in Teheran in 2003. The Iranian missiles remind the destroyed by Israeli missiles by the structure, however, unlike them, these Iranian missiles have a control system of flight that considerably allows to improve defeat accuracy.
The Iranian missiles have 170-250 kilometers radius of effective destruction. Besides unlike other missiles, the Iranian missiles work on firm fuel, that considerably reduces time of preparation for start (liquid-propellent missiles refuel directly ahead of start, that increases a time of preparation), and reduces a risk of launcher to be found in the air.
And its length is about 8 meters, the diameter is 61 centimeter, and the gross weight is about 3 tons.
According to experts, the accommodation of such missiles on Israeli border will create a significant problem to this country.

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