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Hezbollah's first and most numerous rocket. Part of the Katyusha rocket launcher family. [107] [246] [242] Rockets are built in Iran [242] under the name Arash, [247] Russia, China, Eastern Europe, North Korea [245] and perhaps former Soviet states. [248] Hezbollah mostly uses 9M22 HE rockets and Chinese Type-81 extended range rockets with Type ...
Rocket-propelled grenade: Unknown Various Soviet Union: Including Iranian produced clones [4] RPG-29: Rocket propelled-grenade Unknown Syria Soviet Union [5] [6] RPG-30: Rocket propelled-grenade Unknown Syria Russia Russia: Possession unconfirmed [7] [8] Panzerfaust 3: Anti-tank rocket launcher: Extremely limited (if so) Unknown West Germany ...
The Katyusha (Russian: Катю́ша, IPA: [kɐˈtʲuʂə] ⓘ) is a type of rocket artillery first built and fielded by the Soviet Union in World War II. Multiple rocket launchers such as these deliver explosives to a target area more intensively than conventional artillery, but with lower accuracy and requiring a longer time to reload.
A visual guide. Lou Robinson and CNN staff ... The group is also believed to possess between 120,000 and 200,000 rockets and missiles. ... Hezbollah’s chances of survival in an all-out war with ...
Unguided rockets comprised the bulk of Hezbollah's missile arsenal in the last war with Israel in 2006, when the group fired about 4,000 of them into Israel - mostly Russian-made Katyusha-style ...
Hezbollah said it had fired 320 Katyusha rockets and targeted 11 military sites as part of a planned attack following the killing of Fuad Shukr. Hezbollah said it had fired 320 Katyusha rockets ...
By April 16, Hezbollah had fired 120 Katyusha rockets into Israel, causing one casualty, at Kiryat Shmona, while Israel was firing over 3,000 shells, conducting 200 missile raids a day into Lebanon, and firing from gunboats on the refugee-crowded roads to Beirut. [12] From 600 to 800 Beirut refugees were crowded in there on April 18.
On 27 July Hezbollah launched 12 Khaibar-1 rockets (Hezbollah designation) at the Israeli town of Afula, which was already hit before. The Khaibar-1 rocket is estimated as having 4 times the power and range of the Katyusha rockets Hezbollah had, up to that point, used. The IDF claim that the Khaibar-1 is a modified Iranian Fajr-5. [35]