Posted on 12/26/2005 7:09:43 AM PST by Jack_1
(IsraelNN.com) The al-Aqsa Brigade of Fatah claims to have US-made Grad missiles, which has a 25 kilometer (15 mile) range.
The terror group is warning that if the IDF attempts to establish a buffer zone in northern Gaza, it will not sit idly by but will opt to launch the missiles against Israeli targets so the “occupation government is the big loser.”
Next they will claim to have heard dirctly from Allah about what to do with them...
Never heard of those missiles.
Do they even exist? Most journalists are too lazy to even check them out.
Missiles:, 2 x 4 Strela-3M (SS-N-3); 2 x 1 Osa -M (SA-N-4) total: 20; 1 x 2 Grad-M missile launcher (122 mm (320 missiles)) ...
Russian apparently.
Grad Missile in Google turned up nothing but Soviet (oops) Russian info.
From FAS search.
Next they will claim to have heard dirctly from Allah about what to do with them...
I can tell them what to do with them. They don't need Allah.
GRADs are Soviet-made. They've been used by Hezbollah and Syrian soldiers as well as the insurgents in Iraq against US troops.
Sooner or later they will have some US missiles. It's more an issue of the goods being ougoing or incoming.
Well, I TRIPLE DOG DARE YA!
Maybe someone painted over the SR in USSR and jacked up the selling price.
One day the Israeli's will tire of playing with these vicious SOB's
Grad ("Hail") MRLS (9K51/BM-21)
The Grad MRLS system has been in service since 1963, has been adopted for use by 50 countries, and as of 1997 was still in production in 11.(70) The Grad system has 40 rocket of 122 mm caliber. Its range is five to 20 km and its one-salvo footprint is 190,000m2.(71)
The Grad has traditionally employed high-explosive unitary warheads. In the early 80s, the 50 rocket 9K59 Prima division variant was developed with a new, more lethal 9M53F unitary round, in comparison to the standard 9M22U warhead. In the mid-90s, new payloads for the Grad were under development, including one carrying 45 anti-personnel/anti-material (APAM) submunitions.(72)
Russian officials demonstrated an upgraded Grad in October 1998, with the 122mm rocket demonstrating a range of 40km, double the distance of the original rocket. The SPLAV company claims that the design improvements have allowed the added range without a decrease in accuracy.(73) The new rocket carries a variety of warheads, including a High Explosive/Fragmentation warhead, a cluster warhead carrying anti-tank mines, a cluster warhead with antipersonnel mines, a smoke-generating warhead, a jammer payload operating in the HF and VHF bands, an air-target simulator, and anti-armor self-guided submunitions.(74) The control system has been automated, including the addition of satellite aided navigation.(75) The BM-21and RM-70 launch vehicles carry the Grad MRLS system.(76)
The Grad MRLS has been sold to over 39 countries, including Afghanistan, Cambodia, China, India, Mongolia, North Korea, Pakistan, and Vietnam.(77) The publication Defense & Foreign Affairs Strategic Policy reported in 1997 that Armenia secretly acquired the Grad MLRS between 1994-96.(78) The Grad MRLS has been used extensively in the Chechen conflict.
grad is russian cr.p
Soviet missiles would have Cyrillic/Russian writing, "CCCP", not Latin/English "USSR".
Ok, so they painted over the "P," and now the missiles look like they belonged to the American Civilian Conservation Corps.
I know, It was a joke.
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