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August 13th, 2006   Post 11
WarMachine
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How can the iranians fly in any more rockets, there's no country that would give them the airspace to do so unless they smuggled it somehow. That alone would be a big task since they would need a tone of planes to resupply rockets in any meaningful way. You sure they didn't ship the rockets to syria who in turn handed it to hezbollah?
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August 13th, 2006   Post 12
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Syria, then put on trucks.
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August 15th, 2006   Post 13
Donkey
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Hezbollah is seriously well funded...

For some insite into this have a look at the following

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hezbollah
I know it's wikipedia but it has some interesting stuff in there

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/742780.html
This site is Israeli so yes one could say it is biased

http://www.forbes.com/forbes/2006/0814/046.html
They rake in so much do forbes talks about em

http://www.washingtoninstitute.org/html/pdf/hezbollah-testimony-05252005.pdf
long read


So it wouldnt be hard to think that Hezbollah would be able to afford a few launchers and associated rockets...

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August 15th, 2006   Post 14
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Post; Mk1 Ass (or) Mule (or) Horse (or) Mk2 Soldier / Freedom Fighter...


You are worrying about less than nothing. Very few of the missiles and rockets that were supplied to Hezbollah were of the kind that require the sophisticated launchers you are talking about.

Of the better than 10,000 estimated aerial armaments, just a handful were thought to be the sophisticated missiles that require all sorts of external hookups for programming. It is impossible to carry that type of ordnance around via the kinds of transportation that is available after all of the main roads are bombed to rubble. The type of rockets that only require a tube for launching, can be transported by any old Mk1 Ass (or) Mule (or) Horse (or) even piggyback by a Mk2 Soldier / Freedom Fighter.

The missiles that you are worrying about were probably fired already so as to dump the launchers that were easy to spot.
 
August 15th, 2006   Post 15
Donkey
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Exactly what the chief said.... The rockets they where launching where of WWII era soviet technology Katyusha (Little Katie) rockets...They have a range of almost 13 miles...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katyusha (this shows the truck mounted)

But still they are one of the best funded terrorist groups in the world...

Last edited by Donkey; August 15th, 2006 at 15:28.
 



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