http://www.debbieschlussel.com/archives/2008/12/chi-coms_made_h.html
"Now, it's been reported that this missile that hit cousin Karen's school was made in China and contained metal pellets designed to inflict maximum human injury. Let's hear it for the Chi-Coms. They make everything we buy at Target, Wal-Mart, K-Mart, and elsewhere. And they also make these weapons of death and destruction for terrorists. Gee, for all the anti-capitalism they preach, they are the ultimate capitalists with no moral compass"
http://www.weaselzippers.net/blog/2009/01/report-hamas-has-acquired-iranian-made-fajr3-missiles-capable-of-hitting-dimona-nuke-plant.html
" UK's London Times quotes Israeli sources as saying terror group gets hand on Iranian Fajr-3 missiles, able to reach further into Israel. The Israeli defense establishment has expressed growing concerns Hamas missiles may pose a threat to its top-secret nuclear facility at Dimona, the UK's London Times reported Friday.
The report quoted Israeli officials as saying that Hamas has acquired dozens of Iranian-made Fajr-3 missiles and that the more sophisticated weaponry will bring the nuclear installation in Dimona, some 20 miles east of Beersheba, into its rocket range.
Dimona houses Israel’s only nuclear reactor and is believed to be where nuclear warheads are stored. "
Rest here>>>
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20090104103013AAtcFkB
" They are home made, short ranged, low explosive missiles, made of random things you find in a street. They barley do anything.Edit: I copied Mok's answer because I'm sure reading it once won't be enough for those who think we're talking about intercontinental missiles that just happen to kill no one. Qassams are made out of fertilizer (see Wikipedia). In 2006, the Israeli Ministry of Defense viewed the Qassams as "more a psychological than physical threat." The Sandinistas developed a similar rocket during the Nicaraguan civil war. After they won control of the country the "contras" began attacking Nicaraguan territory from Honduras with US financing. Nicaragua never bombed Honduran territory. "
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qassam_rocket
"Rocket design and specifications
The aim of the Qassam rocket design appears to be ease and speed of manufacture, using common tools and components. To this end, the rockets are propelled by a solid mixture of sugar and a widely available fertilizer, potassium nitrate. The warhead is filled with smuggled or scavenged TNT and another common fertilizer, urea nitrate.[7]
The rocket consists of a steel cylinder, containing a rectangular block of the propellant. A steel plate which forms and supports the nozzles is spot-welded to the base of the cylinder. The warhead consists of a simple metal shell surrounding the explosives, and is triggered by a fuze constructed using a simple firearm cartridge, a spring and a nail.[7]
While early designs used a single nozzle which screwed into the base, recent rockets use a seven-nozzle design, with the nozzles drilled directly into the rocket baseplate. This change both increases the tolerance of the rocket to small nozzle design defects, and eases manufacture by allowing the use of a drill rather than a lathe during manufacture due to the smaller nozzle size. Unlike many other rockets, the nozzles are not canted, which means the rocket does not spin about its axis during flight. While this results in a significant decrease in accuracy, it greatly simplifies rocket manufacture and the launch systems required.[7]"
[7] http://www.me-monitor.com/docframes.asp?file=files/The%20Growing%20Threat%20of%20the%20Kassam.htm
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
No comments:
Post a Comment