This time, the Palestinian armed group Jihad fired 650 rockets and artillery shells at Israel for three consecutive days, and was frantically intercepted by the Iron Dome system. According to sources, 650 rockets and artillery shells did not kill any Israelis. Instead, a rocket was accidentally launched and landed in a refugee camp in Gaza, causing casualties.
Today's armed Palestinian rocket launchers are no longer homemade black powder steel tube Kazan rockets. The old-fashioned Kasan missiles have a range of only a few kilometers and can only harass the border areas. The iron pipe contained medicine, the tail was attached, and the head was filled with bombs. This is a big flying monkey that cannot hit Israeli targets in depth.
At present, Palestinian armed groups mainly rely on medium and long-range rockets to attack areas tens of kilometers deep in Israel. The Palestinian armed groups Hamas and Jihad have been armed with Iranian Victory 5 missile launchers with a range of 60-75 kilometers and Iran's latest BADR-3 precision-guided missiles with a range of 160 kilometers.
This is the weapon used by the Yemeni Houthis armed forces to kill on the battlefield in Yemen. They repeatedly defeated the Saudi coalition, attacked Saudi coalition bases, and destroyed a large number of Humvee vehicles, helicopter gunships and camps.
A Hamas weapons carrier intercepted by the Israeli Navy in the Red Sea carrying Iranian-made Khaibar-1 302-mm missiles. The missile weighs 750 kg, has a warhead of 150 kg and a maximum range of 100 km. This type of rocket can hit the inner cities of Israel. However, Hamas's domestically produced rockets in the past, with a maximum range of no more than 5 kilometers, could not reach Israeli cities at all.
Missiles with an accuracy of up to 1 km. It requires a strapdown inertial navigation system consisting of a simple guidance system and inertial devices, a solid-fuel rocket engine and a 150-600 kg warhead. The cost is not cheap, a shot costs at least tens of thousands of dollars.
Today's Iron Dome systems use a large number of commercial components and cost has dropped dramatically. The ammunition of the Iron Dome system is not worth much. Of real value is the ground target trajectory confirmation and automatic assignment system of the Iron Dome system. The system can predict the impact point of thousands of missiles.
It doesn't matter if it lands in the desert or on farmland. If there is an urban area that needs to be protected, the missiles that need to be intercepted are automatically assigned to the Iron Dome system in the interception area. The Iron Dome system will automatically enter the range of each missile and intercept it. Missiles automatically deploy interceptor missiles.
The Iron Dome interceptor itself is actually a low-tech product with a short range and inability to intercept maneuvering targets. It cannot be used with a high level of electronic countermeasures. It can only intercept missiles with a fixed trajectory.
There are now three major armed groups in Palestine. The first is Fatah, representing the Palestinian Government. Fatah was also the first Palestinian armed group to oppose Israel. The second is Hamas, the third is jihad.
Fatah and Israel have been at war for decades, but now that Fatah has signed an agreement with Israel, the conflict has not broken out for a long time. The main conflict with Israel now is Hamas and jihad armed groups.
In fact, the Hamas militant group was nurtured by Israel itself. In the 60s of the 20th century, the Palestinian Fatah was very powerful, 100 times stronger than Hamas today. Fatah, which has tens of thousands of armed men, regularly attacks Israel and even dares to attack Israeli military targets.
Therefore, in the 70s of the 20th century, Israeli intelligence agencies began to support Hamas, which was still weak at the time, in its fight against Fatah from Palestine. After the 90s of the 20th century, Hamas also began to attack Israel, but each time both sides only tasted the sweetness.
Every time Hamas attacks Israel, the Likud party receives a large number of votes. Hamas could also get more money from Gulf donors. In fact, the electricity Hamas needs to build and assemble rockets now uses Israeli electricity systems.
For Jihad, in the late 70s of the 20th century, Palestinian refugees in Egypt formed the Jihad Organization with the goal of destroying Israel. Later, with the success of the Khomeini Revolution in Iran in 1979, Jihad found a way forward. Since then, Jihad respected Iran as his brother, and Iran has been able to develop and grow.
Later, some members of the jihadi group were involved in the assassination of Egyptian President Anwar Sadat in 1981, and the members of the group were deported to Gaza. From then on, Jihad began to use Gaza as a base to confront Israel.