Word: katyusha
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...Indeed, the current state of "dialogue" between Israel and Syria may be revealed in the contents of a fishing boat intercepted near Haifa en route from Lebanon to Gaza on Monday. Israeli authorities said the vessel contained rocket-propelled grenades and Katyusha rockets, the artillery-of-choice of Hezbollah. The Iran-backed Lebanese militia which has periodically acted as a Syrian proxy has formed Palestinian cells in Gaza, which have been behind the mortar attacks on Israeli settlements in that territory. If the rockets intercepted by the Israelis were indeed sent by Hezbollah - which may provoke a sharp Israeli response...
...have finally developed a battlefield laser weapon. Now the question is whether it's up to its mission. The Pentagon announced Thursday that the Tactical High Energy Laser (THEL) designed for Israel to deploy on its northern border was successfully tested in New Mexico Tuesday against an armed Katyusha rocket (the favored artillery of the Hezbollah guerrillas for attacking northern Israeli towns). The system tracked the incoming rocket, and blew it up with an invisible laser beam created by a chemical reaction in a battlefield weapon. "This is really the first time you have a ray gun with a real...
Recently, there has been a very serious escalation in the war between Israel and Hizbullah terrorists in Lebanon. The situation is frightening: Israeli civilians are hiding in bomb shelters fearing another round of Katyusha rocket attacks, soldiers have been wounded and killed, while several Lebanese civilians have been wounded and many others are without electricity after an Israeli air-bombing of major power plants...