The launchers can be hidden in barns or under trees, pulled out briefly to fire the missiles and moved back to cover.
They are a modernized version of the Russian system from WWII.
Here's an example...
Posted on 07/15/2006 5:43:36 AM PDT by Esther Ruth
Rocket barrage hits Tiberias
(VIDEO) City hit for first time by Hizbullah rockets from Lebanon; eight people reportedly hurt in attack. 'We never thought Hizbullah would strike here,' resident says. Beaches cleared, residents ordered into secure rooms Sharon Roffe-Ofir
VIDEO - A barrage of rockets fell on Tiberias, located some 35 kilometers (about 22 miles) from the Israel-Lebanon border, for the first time Saturday afternoon.
Rockets landed in a number of sites in the city; one Katyusha struck a house, and eight people were lightly injured - two of them from shrapnel. Another rocket landed in an open field near Kfar Hitim.
Residents were instructed to clear the city's beaches and enter secure rooms.
Shalom Cohen, who lives near a building hit by a rocket, told Ynet “Our entire home smells of gunpowder; my two kids are panicking. There was no doubt in my mind that it would reach us too; rockets will continue to land on the city and we will become like Safed.”
Tiberias under attack (Video: Yaron Brenner)
Hizbullah said it launched 12 Katyushas, but the rockets that struck Tiberias were long-range rockets, not Katyushas.
Tiberias attacked for the first time (Photo: Shai Hatab)
“We heard several load booms,” resident Ayala Aloni told Ynet. “We never through it would happen to us. It was very frightening. There are ambulances on the streets.”
Another resident said “we are very afraid and plan to take the kids and flee the city.”
A manager of a local hotel said his guests were taken to a safe location.
Destruction in Tiberias (Photo: Yaron Brenner)
“We never imagined Hizbullah intended to reach Tiberias,” he said. “Now all we can do is calm the hotel guests down.”
The Home Front Command instructed Tiberias residents to enter protected areas or inner rooms in buildings not exposed to windows, openings or external walls.
Hatzor Haglilit home struck by rocket (Photo: AP)
Emergency phone number for the Command: 1207.
Dozens of Katyushas were fired at northern Israeli communities since the morning hours; seven people were lightly hurt, others suffered from anxiety.
Carmiel was struck by two rounds of Katyusha rockets, and an educational institute suffered a direct hit. One rocket landed on the roof of a house, and several people were treated for shock.
A senior IDF officer said there is a link between the rocket attacks on the north and visits by top Israeli officials to the area.
Hanan Greenberg, Hagai Einav and Ahiya Raved contributed to the report
First Published: 07.15.06, 13:25 Latest Update: 07.15.06, 14:01
07/15/2006
15:04
Updates
Katyushas in Tiberias: 3 lightly injured by shrapnel; 10 suffer from shock
A total of six Katyusha rockets landed in Tiberias and its vicinity so far, and 13 people were lightly injured and evacuated to the Proiya Hospital in town. Three of the injured were hurt by shrapnel and the others were treated for shock.
Tiberias mayor said that “a great miracle happened to us today.” (Sharon Rofee-Ofir)
Israel will have to push its northern border well inside Lebanon and take the heights of Beaufort Castle. If it does not, it cannot guarantee the relative safety of its North.
Gee, no leaflets dropped first from Hezbollah advising residents to flee? How mean is that!
Apparently most of the population is located in the North.
Question: why isn't Israel taking out those rocket launcher emplacements with cruise missiles or mid-altitude bombers? Itr seems as though the muzzie filth are just firing at will and continuing to inflict civilian casualties.
Or am I missing something and they have been taking them out?
They're mobile. The shorter-range Katyushas are (or can be) truck-mounted or maybe towed, and the longer-range ones are able to be carried in trucks and set up and fired very quickly. These aren't big installations with fixed launchers. Remember the trouble we had in 1991 finding and destroying the Iraqi Scud launchers? These are much smaller.
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I bet they have the missile launchers sitting beside hospitals and schools
something the lebanon govt should have preventd
"lebanon govt" = oxymoron.
The launchers can be hidden in barns or under trees, pulled out briefly to fire the missiles and moved back to cover.
They are a modernized version of the Russian system from WWII.
Here's an example...
Thanks, MM; now I know why they can't be specifically targeted.
There are no emplacements.
See post #12, and my reply.
I haven't seen Behind Enemy Lines, so I can't tell you exactly, but there are a lot of smaller anti-aircraft missiles ranging from shoulder-launched heat seekers like the US Stinger to larger types based on air to air missiles like the US Chaparral and very large systems like the US Patriot and Hawk. Israel has effective countermeasures for most Russian designed systems. Hizbollah is unlikely to have any state of the art anti-aircraft missiles that would be a real danger. (I could be wrong.)
It looks like the Israeli ship was hit with an Iranian built version of a Chinese guided anti-ship missile. This is a dangerous escalation.
You can find info about almost any missile system here.
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