Rockets of the Hizbollah
Here is the known Hizbollah arsenal of rockets.
· 122mm Katyushas: range 13 miles, warhead 6 kg
· 122mm improved Katyushas: range 19 miles, warhead, 6 kg
· 220mm Syrian rockets: range 43 miles, warhead 40 kg
· 240mm rockets: range 6 miles, warhead 18kg
· 240mm Iranian Fajr 3: range 26 miles, warhead 50 kg
· 333mm Iranian Fajr 5: range 46 miles, warhead 90 kg
· 302mm Iranian Khaibar-1: range 100 miles, warhead 100 kg
· 610mm Iranian ZelZal-2: range 130 miles, warhead 400 kg
This list does not include ATGMs*, SAMs** and SSMs***. This terrorist organisation is known to possess many types missiles, not merely unguided rockets.
*ATGM - Anti-Tank Guided Missiles
** SAM - Surface to Air Missiles
*** SSM - Surface to Surface Missiles
Quoting MIT's Technology Review:
"The events of September 2001 disproved the assumption that only a state could make war on another state."
Non-state actors are now prevalent.
Source: MIT Technology Review
2 comments:
They will have to be ferreted out and vanquished, even if the "host" country has a problem with that. Any country that allows such groups to exist on it's soil have no legitimate right to soverinty claims. Hizbollah is the government in Lebanon, regardless of claims to the contrary.
Tim, shrewdly observed. Hizbollah is the government in Lebanon.
And Hizbollah IS Southern Lebanon. 40% of the population are Shiites. There are seventeen or eighteen other Muslim and Christian sects there.
You can't vanquish Hizbollah without resorting to genocide. (And if you resort to that, you become no better than them.) This is 'unwinnable' via military means.
Due to the Hizbollah's 'sacred values', economic assistance (bribes) won't work either. Guess what? compromise won't work either. In their culture, compromise is seen as weakness and will lead to them pressing for more advantages through violence.
And they also have a 'a tooth for a tooth and an eye for an eye' means of thinking.
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