IRREGULAR WARFARE
NAME
BM-21 Rocket Civilian aircraft EFP Gun truck IED Motorboat Qassam 1 Rocket Qassam 2 Rocket Qassam 3 Rocket Sailing boat Technical |
COST
US$30,000 US$150,000 US$500 US$35,000 US$1,000 US$100,000 US$1,000 US$2,500 US$5,000 US$500,000 US$10.000 |
UPKEEP
NO UPKEEP US$25,000 NO UPKEEP US$12,500 NO UPKEEP US$20,000 NO UPKEEP NO UPKEEP NO UPKEEP US$50,000 US$5,000 |
NOTE
old Soviet BM-21 rocket that can be fired over a distance of some 24 km small civilian aircraft that can be used for smuggling, air attacks or suicide missions. The aircraft can be equipped with a small number of bombs, but the delivery methods are often not very precise a special type of shaped charge designed to penetrate armour effectively at standoff distances civilian truck converted to carry a machine gun, light anti-aircraft gun, recoilless rifle, or other support weapon. The truck is more heavily armed than the regular technical a homemade bomb constructed of conventional military explosives, such as an artillery round, attached to a detonating mechanism a civilian motorboat converted to enable smuggling, or carry out small attack missions. The vessels can be armed with one or two machinguns a simple steel artillery rocket developed and deployed by the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades, the military arm of Hamas. The rocket has a range of 5 km and a warhead of 5kg a simple steel artillery rocket developed and deployed by the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades, the military arm of Hamas. The rocket has a range of 12 km and a warhead of 10kg a simple steel artillery rocket developed and deployed by the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades, the military arm of Hamas. The rocket has a range of 20 km and a warhead of 20kg used for smuggling activities. The vessels have more room than the motorboats, but are also more expensive to maintain and not as fast open-backed civilian pickup truck or four-wheel drive vehicle mounting a machine gun, light anti-aircraft gun, recoilless rifle, or other support weapon |