[fso301]

Here's the question: Why is Israel not using this sort of thing?

Why do you think they aren't?

A 155mm Howitzer projectile travels at roughly 800 meters/sec. Depending on the gun, projectile and charge, it can go a little faster or slower but lets stay with 800m/sec for purposes of this discussion.

The maximum range is roughly 40 kilometers. So, ignoring wind resistance slowing the projectile, an outbound 155mm round fired at a target 40 kilometers away will take about 50 seconds to get there.

Add to that crew response time, target acquisition time, target fixing time and communications and you're up over 1 minute.

The pickup truck that fired the rockets can be long gone in that amount of time.

[muawiyah]

The IDF uses an enhanced artillery piece ~ it fires rocket assisted rounds. That gives the IDF sufficient range to take out the NorthEast side of Damascus any time they want (once they secure the access route from Lebanon, which probably happens tonight).

I suspect part of the IDF battlefield logic is to leave enough of Hezbollah's fighting force intact to bring out their WMD ~ then they get snuffed.