| Iranian-Hezbollah-Rocket More than 200 hundred | | | | can be launched from a single launch pad or in salvos |
| rockets were fired from south Lebanon into Israel on | | | | from a multiple rocket launcher. Hezbollah uses this |
| Friday and Saturday adding up to over 1,000 over | | | | system mainly with a single launcher. Iranian FADJR-5 |
| the past two weeks. The latest news on Hezbollah | | | | missile The second set of Iranian made rockets, |
| launched rockets is the use of a Khaibar-1 rocket, | | | | believed to have been delivered to the Hezbollah in |
| which hit on Saturday an open field near the town of | | | | smaller numbers, is the Oghab, a 230mm rocket with |
| Afulla in the Valley of Izrael. Hezbollah propaganda | | | | a range of 45 kilometers and a warhead weighing 70 |
| named the rocket "Khaibar," a historic-religious name | | | | kilograms. Originally this rocket was designed to be |
| deriving from the Battle of Khaibar in the Arabian | | | | carried and fired from special vehicles. However, they |
| Peninsula in the early years of Islam. The battle, was | | | | can also be fired from a single launching tube. In the |
| against a Jewish fortification, has become a symbol | | | | same category is the Fadjr-3 230mm with a range of |
| of resilience and of the superiority of Islam over | | | | 45 kilometers and a warhead weighing 45 kilograms. |
| Judaism. The Khaibar-1 is apparently one of the | | | | It is believed that the simpler and lighter Fadjr-3 is |
| Iranian Fadjr family of artillery missiles. Iranian 240mm | | | | the one used by the Hezbollah. It too can be |
| Rocket Launcher M 1985 It is important to analyze | | | | mounted on a vehicle to be used as a multiple rocket |
| the basic characteristics of these weapon systems. | | | | launcher. The Oghab and the Fadjr-3 can cover |
| The main factor related to the present conflict | | | | northern Israel, including Haifa and Tiberias. To launch |
| regards the rocket's maximum range and the type of | | | | them the Hezbollah have to be as close as possible |
| warhead used. So far the Hezbollah have been using | | | | to the Israeli-Lebanese border. Iranian MRLS. |
| mainly short range rockets, fired either from a single | | | | missile-rockets The conflict will escalate if the |
| launcher, often with an improvised timer enabling to | | | | Hezbollah have in their arsenal heavier rockets |
| aim the rocket towards a general direction and flight | | | | capable of covering a distance of 75 kilometers, |
| angle and then walk away from the launch site. | | | | carrying 190 kilograms of explosives; this rocket is |
| Iranian 122mm-mrl-iran Various types of electronic | | | | the Fadjr-5 333mm. It is a larger rocket and |
| timers, often with a simple modified alarm clock, do | | | | therefore more difficult to move around. Originally it |
| the rest. These rockets are an Iranian version, called | | | | was designed for multiple rocket launchers. The last |
| Haseb, of the Russian 107mm Katyusha with a range | | | | two heavy rockets are the Shahin-1 333mm with a |
| of up to nine kilometers. Another way to launch the | | | | range of 13 kilometers and a warhead of 190 |
| rockets is by using multiple launchers to create a | | | | kilograms and the Shahin-2 333mm with a |
| salvo effect. Such launchers can be towed or | | | | 20-kilometer range and also a 190-kilogram warhead. |
| mounted on jeeps, trucks etc. The war head | | | | Experts on artillery rockets note that to launch the |
| (explosives) weighs eight kilograms. Iranian FADJR-2 | | | | long range and heavier rockets the Hezbollah would |
| Another artillery rocket type is the Arash 1 and 2, | | | | need an elaborate technical and logistical capability. If |
| both based on Russian and Chinese models. This | | | | these rockets are launched it will almost certainly |
| 122mm rocket has a range of 18 kilometers with a | | | | mean Iranian experts and their equipment are active |
| warhead weighing 18 kilograms. Here too the rocket | | | | in Lebanon. |