Iran Military Forum

Alex: which reports?

There is some major confusion out there about Hezbollah's rocket/missile inventory. Often because media sources dont understand the difference between rockets & missiles. Hezbollah has thousands of ROCKETS not missiles. It's likely they do have a small force of Fateh-110/M600 but not in the thousands. Most media sources simply use the terms rockets & missiles interchangably which causes such confusion. Long story short, the vast majority of Hezbollah's inventory are unguided artillery rockets ranging from simple 122mm rockets to Fajr-3/5s & Zelzals (which are rockets not missiles since they lack a guidance system). The difference in their inventory since the last war is they now likely have many times more longer range rockets like the Fajr-3/5s and now have an unknown number of M600/Fateh-110s, and their total inventory is now several times greater.

Ironically enough its likely Israeli sources propagating the idea of Hezbollah having one of the largest "missile" inventories in the first place which is then picked up by unquestioning Western media sources & spread from there.

This Masregh News seems to be a gold mine of information, i'm going to have to start checking them out more often.

Probably in reference to this netting which Modlex advertises as being covered with a coating which makes it invisible to radar and IR.

This is probably why, invariably, every new weapon that Iran announces is touted as being stealthy - RAM coating.

Source: http://modlex.ir/cgi-bin/store.pl/page=product.html/pid=MXF11-000270

Multi spectral camouflage coatings (visible, near infrared, thermal and Dual-purpose radar stationary and mobile).

Modern camouflage coatings are capable of simultaneous camouflaging visible, near and thermal infrared areas and radar waves in threatening radar band X ( from 8 to 12 GHz). These coatings are used for camouflaging all stationary and mobile military and strategic the fore mentioned targets, with use of these coatings could be undetectable against different threats which are installed on different military platforms, such as fighter planes, satellites, remote control missiles etc.

Also this could be available in form of camouflage clothing, which is able to camouflage personnels against different visible NIR and TIR sensors.

Source: http://modlex.ir/cgi-bin/store.pl/page=product.html/pid=MXF11-000280

Radar camouflage coating could protect equipment military and strategic centers of state against tracking and detecting radar equipment on high threat X band (from 8-12 GHz) so, some products have been provided existing radar equipments.

With equipping the test room it could be foreseen that this product would cover other threatening band frequencies such as:

120 ±1 GHz, 95 ±1 GHz, 34 ±1 GHz, 8-12 GHz

Based on their efficiency in camouflaging and assimilation of target with the environment and avoid detection by radar systems, this type of coating could be installed or covered on different military and strategic equipment′s such as:
    * Bomber aircrafts, unmanned reconnaissance aircrafts.
    * Military ships.
    * Also could be used on the Tank and on the surface of the reactive armor boxes.
    * Power plants, refineries, political centers and other strategic points.

[Israel is very small to be able to survive more than 50 Ballistic Missiles, there won't be anyone left to rebuild, lol.]
1)100x of those Scuds and two blocks 5 km x 5 km of Tel Aviv is dead.

They are not "scuds".