Newsletter email address Get it By signing up, you agree to the terms. The Iron Dome anti-missile system fires interception missiles at rockets fired from the Gaza Strip into Israel, in the southern Israeli city of Ashkelon, on May 19, View comments Hide comments. Indeed, Israeli estimates indicate that Hezbollah will attempt to fire 1,, such rockets at Israel per day, compared to the maximum of rockets per day that the group fired in Yet, the vast majority of this arsenal — even according to Israeli sources — consists of relatively short-range, inaccurate, projectiles carrying lower explosive payloads.
This short-range arsenal is comprised mostly of Katyusha variants — with maximum high explosive weight of 20 kg and range of 40 km, respectively — but also includes: the Fajr-3 45 kg, 43 km ; the Fajr-5 90 kg, 75 km ; the Raad-2 and Raad-3 km, 50 kg ; and the Khaibar-1 kg, km.
They can be fired on short notice in large volleys either remotely or from mobile launch pads and have a short flight time and flat trajectory — making them difficult to detect or intercept. Israel developed the Iron Dome to counter the threat of such missiles. Unable to develop rockets sophisticated enough to breach the Israeli missile defense system, Hezbollah opted for the low-tech alternative of overwhelming it with sheer numbers of the cheap Katyushas, with the added benefit of carrying out psychological warfare against the Israeli civilian population.
The Iron Dome has proven highly successful in previous combat engagements. It will therefore be technologically and economically unfeasible for Israel to intercept all of these rockets. At the daily rate at which Hezbollah projected to fire these rockets, an estimated to rockets will make impact within northern Israel. Hezbollah intends for its rockets to have an additional psychological impact on Israel.
The group has long used psychological warfare to amplify the impact of its armed attacks, and as a means of bridging the conventional power gap vastly favoring the IDF. As in past engagements with the IDF, Hezbollah will likely concentrate the use of its psychological warfare against the Israeli civilian population rather than Israeli soldiers. Considering that disparity, Hezbollah will want to shorten the duration of a future war with Israel, to reduce the amount of damage the IDF can inflict upon it and ensure its own survival.
This could lead them to pressure their government into a premature ceasefire. The Israeli army said its Iron Dome system intercepted 10 rockets, and six of them landed in open areas. Israel retaliated with an artillery barrage. Residents in several Israeli towns in the Golan Heights and northern Israel briefly entered bomb shelters.
Six other rockets landed in open areas, and three fell short and landed in Lebanon. Israeli officials said there were no injuries. It said the rocket fire was in response to recent Israeli airstrikes in Lebanon. Those Israeli airstrikes were themselves in response to an earlier rocket attack from Lebanon, which Israeli officials said they believed was from Palestinian groups, not Hezbollah. The rocket has a length of 5.
The rocket has a length of 6. The mobile Fajr-5 launchers used in carried up to four rockets each. The projectile struck the Northern Israeli town of Rosh Pina, but did not result in any casualties.
Renamed by Hezbollah as the Raad-2 and Raad-3, these rockets have a range of km with a 50 kg high explosive HE warhead, which is filled with 6 mm anti-personnel steel balls. The rockets are measure approximately 4.
Hezbollah successfully fired a Raad rocket into Israel for the first time on July 16, — four days into the Second Lebanon War. Until then it had relied on regular and enhanced-range mm rockets. It is typically equipped with large, anti-personnel warheads. However, the rocket does not spin like the Fajr-5, and is therefore likely less accurate.
Subsequent targets included Haifa, Hadera, and areas in the northern West Bank. It has a length of 8. The solid-fuel rocket shares the same length and diameter as its predecessor, but has an increased launch weight of 3, kg.
It is also spin-stabilized. Iran used transport planes to carry sophisticated missiles — including the Zelzal — into Syria, which were then smuggled to Hezbollah. It is most likely a modified version of the unguided Zelzal-2, with the addition of control and guidance systems. They are nearly 9 m in length and weigh approximately 3, kg at launch. These reports emerged in late , and again in April when then-Israeli President Shimon Peres directly accused Syria of transferring Scuds to Hezbollah.
Neither Israel nor the United States, however, have provided any evidence that Hezbollah is or ever has been in possession of Scuds. Additionally, Scuds are usually seen as impractical weapons for Hezbollah in its war doctrine. Standard versions measure Iran began buying dozens from the Chinese during the s until the United States pressured Beijing to cease sales. The C has a range of km while carrying a kg warhead. It has a length of 6. The missile is turbo-jet powered, high-speed subsonic, and sea-skimming capable.
One of the missiles successfully hit the vessel, killing four Israeli sailors. It can be air-, ground- or sub-launched. The Yakhont has a range of km while carrying either a kg high explosive HE or kg semi-armor piercing SAP warhead. It measures 8. It is supersonic, capable of sea-skimming flight, and employs inertial navigation-based guidance.
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