Rockets Are Biggest Threat to Israel, Not Ballistic Missiles

Aviation Week and Space Technology ^ | 10/15/2010 | David A. Fulghum

[ErnstStavroBlofeld]

Long-range ballistic missile are a new threat to Europe, but Israeli defense planners are more concerned about the rapid growth in lower-end rocket threats.

The biggest growth comes from the fact that regional adversaries are being equipped with inexpensive, but effective guidance systems that have tightened targeting errors to within 100-200 meters. That is high accuracy compared to Iraq’s rain of Scuds in 1991 that could predictably hit only large cities like Tel Aviv, Dhahran or Riyadh. They created public fears and political pressure, but had virtually no effect on the military conflict.

China also is participating in the exchange of missile technology. The Chinese DongFeng DF-11 missile was exported to Iran in 1995 and formed the basis of Iran’s Fateh (Conqueror) 110 missile. The Fateh 110 was, in turn, exported to Syria which used it as the basis for its M600 Zelzal missile.

“While everybody is concerned about the Scuds, they are no more problematic than the M600 missiles,” says an Israeli defense analyst. The warhead is not as big as the Scud-Ds and it cannot reach Beersheba to the south of Jerusalem, but it does have advantages.

“It is much, much more accurate,” he says. “[The Syrians] took the Iranian Fateh 110 rocket and improved them in Syria to the M600. The Syrians have many projects for building their own forces, but part of even the newest projects goes to Hezbollah. That is how those non-state organizations are getting strategic capabilities

[1010RD]

Obama sits on his hands.

That Schakowsky (IL-9) pretends to be pro-Israel and that pro-Israel Jews vote for her makes me sick.

[Diogenesis]

"Obama sits on his hands."

Really? He funds -using US taxpayer money- Hamas, Fatah,
and now Hezbollah in Lebanon, while Israel sits in the
'waste basket' with other past US allies (still the American
peoples' allies).

[StonyBurk]

Rockets/ guns/ things that blow up— it is not the toys used but the evil/deceived men behind such. There will be wars and rumors of wars—and the enemy will cry Peace-Peace but there is not peace until the Righteous One Appears— any my bet is
He will not come to tear down the Christian Crosses nor to shout the that bloody cult of destruct “Here is Jew come kill him.” My bet is He will come to bring Peace. whether it be a
Second Coming— or the Promised Coming matters little to me.
That He comes to bring Peace to Jerusalem is all that matters.

[jmacusa]

Did you ever notice that Palestinians are killed by Israelis and Israelis are killed by ‘’rockets’’. ?