Are The Launchers All Gone?

Missileer

Missileer

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It seems that Hezbollah is only using rockets and an occasional drone as of late. It only takes a tube and squib battery for the solid fuel rocket but a guided missile is launched from a sophistocated platform that is connected to the missile by an umbilical cable. The launcher does a lot of jobs before a missile can be fired. There is a self test, a missile test, some method of programming in coordinates, usually by GPS data. Then the servo motors have to spin up the servos to a certain speed and lock them in before the firing sequence can be completed.

What I'm wondering is whether Hezbollah could only afford a couple of launchers and a lot of missiles since a launcher is the most expensive to buy and maintain. Also, it's reusable while missiles are one shot vehicles.
I think that they would have used more by now if it was possible.
 
I think hezbollah has used about 20% of their rockets, i'm not sure how many have been lost to israeli strikes, but many more are handily available to them and are on supply for months. Just how does a force of less than 10000 handle all of this? I suppose the limited region would make it easier to do so, but that's still over 10000 rockets to worry about.
 
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This is what they will use.
 
Team Infidel said:
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This is what they will use.
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Hey, that's top secret stuff you've got there. MK-1, Rev.B Iranian Battle Asses with M3 Multipurpose Wheeled Vehicle with raised letter tires.
 
I remember seeing some pics of 10th Mtn. soldiers in a-stan riding some furry "Tactical Mountainous Terrain Vehicles." I think it was on the AKO splash page.
 
WarMachine said:
I think hezbollah has used about 20% of their rockets, i'm not sure how many have been lost to israeli strikes, but many more are handily available to them and are on supply for months. Just how does a force of less than 10000 handle all of this? I suppose the limited region would make it easier to do so, but that's still over 10000 rockets to worry about.
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Would you care to provide us with a source for this information, or is this just your opinion? Please see Forum rule #6.
 
i got it off the bbc world news, but since everything everyone says is an estimate anyway, i don't think there's any precise info i can give you.
 
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?
 
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...

 
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.
 
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...
 
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