Screengrab. Click to see full-size image. (Hezbollah’s Military Media)
Hezbollah has successfully used an advanced Iranian-made anti-tank guided missile (ATGM) to take out a counter-battery radar of the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF).
The group released video footage of the attack on April 18, noting that it took place a day earlier. The radar, identified as an American-made AN/TPQ-37 Firefinder, was deployed at a key air traffic control base of the IDF on Mount Meron, some eight kilometers away from the border with Lebanon.
The AN/TPQ-37 was developed to detect and track incoming artillery and rocket fire to determine the point of origin for counter-battery fire. The S-band radar can detect an artillery shell from 30 kilometers and a rocket from up to 50 kilometers.
Hezbollah fighters used what appears to be a ground-launched version of the Iranian Almas-3 ATGM to take out the counter-battery radar.
Almas is a copy of the Israeli Spike family of ATGMs that was first unveiled by Iran some four years ago. The Almas-3 version is said to have a range of ten kilometers.
Similar to the Spike ATGM, Almas is equipped with an electro-optical or an infrared imaging seeker. The missile has a top-attack feature, meaning it can strike its target from above as a form of plunging fire. It can also hit targets behind the line of sight.
Hezbollah has been using Almas ATGMs against the IDF since the outbreak of the clashes on the Lebanese-Israeli border on the backdrop of the Israeli war on the Palestinian Gaza Strip. However, only the lighter Almas-1 version was spotted with the group’s fighters before.
The IDF lost several vehicles, including main battle tanks, and radars to Hezbollah’s Almas missile. On top of that, the group used missiles of this type in an attack on a building in the border settlement of Arab al-Aramshe that wounded more than18 Israeli troops and civilians.
The appearance of Almas missiles with Hezbollah was not only significant because of the missiles’ advanced capabilities, but also because it exposed a serious intelligence failure of Israel which has claimed for more than a decade that its so-called “war between the wars” covert military campaign, that mainly included strikes on Syria, was hindering the delivery of Iranian weapons to the group.
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those missiles will be the least of israel’s worries. i bet iran will breakout and get nooks soon, simply because loco eyes, empty vessel, dementia biden is inevitably going to lose to trump and since trump is unpredictable iran will need an insurance policy just like kim joung un.
🫵🤡 😆😆😆
the fact is: the us has turned iran into a military power with its repressive policy!
the frightening thing about this is the progredience with which iran is pushing the development forward!
we will hear a lot more from this region, i’m sure
the entire israeli system is dependent on specialist tech like that. if hezbollah can target t like that unchallenged israel is over. all they need to do is take out the iron domb system.
lol, if i was israel i would put out dummies. that system was probably fake and the real one was the toilet cubicle to the side. i would distribute 20 of them to tease and taunt the enemy, only one of them being real, that being the afore mentioned toilet.
cope harder
they are dummies. they have taken out the same radars 15 times in a row already. the real stuff is hidden behind the mountain not on the side they can see and hit
yes, they are dummies… as matter of fact the whole base is a dummy. like ofc why would they try to protect their base? also, that kike that was killed by hezbollah drone was also a dummy.
motherfuker really said, “the real stuff is hidden behind the mountain”…. how old do you guys think he is? oh boy ofc you should give up the higher ground and go “hide behind the mountain”…
like how you are my dummy my poor indian kike.
posting with the crack pipe still in your lips… clown world level analysis…
who are you again? also, i look down on people that do drugs or drink kike.
“clown world level analysis”? what are you kike saying?
“the real stuff is hidden behind the mountain” yeah you supporting my indian kike analysis? wait are you my indian kike… it seems someone got butthurt real fast.
also, on real note, dude just ignore people’s comment maybe? the fuking world revolves around you?
why are you so butthurt? there is no way someone can be this mad about my comments :). i’m replying to my dummy indian kike… what is your problem anyway?
stealth drones can take out stealth f35 when on ground.
as long as humans exist there will be a david to fight the goliath. how unfortunate for tyrants.
ah yes kike… like the battle of bint jbeil. brig.-gen. gal hirsch announced on 25 july that the israel defense forces (idf) had “complete control” of bint jbeil, this statement was later discredited. in spite of three sustained attempts by the idf to conquer the town, it remained in the hands of hezbollah until the end of the war. (hezbollah fighters 100-150 vs idf 5,000 soldiers).
now, hamas and idf…lmfao
powerful us radar and did not see hezbola missile coming…hahahaha…
not only that but “israel” host one of the “best” air defense system in the whole western world. still these kikes failed to stop iran old missiles… they had 2 wahhabis helping them and 4 nato members.
yeah now people understand how these rtded kikes failed to capture a town in 2006 war against 100 hezbollah fighters (idf had 5,000 soldiers hmmm).
the zionist entity is getting gang banged on all sides
are you doing the banging mohsen? we know you usually like getting bent over but have you started experimenting now?
oh my god my indian kike is back (it took me one comment and he came, good boy a very good boy).
lol “israel” great and massive retaliation was 3 small drones that got shot down by irgc lmfao.
us officials confirm israel has attacked a “non-nuclear target” in iran – cnn
so far, the idf has not even officially claimed an attack inside iran, out of fear for retaliation. this is truly pathetic. let me hit you with one of these, 🫵🤡 😆😆😆
that’s a good start, but further improvement must come to be
great hez…. keep it up… multiply x 100 daily
100 x 0 is still zero
what are you even saying?
wait nah, that wasn’t a come back was it? you are so smart my indian kike, but dear the idf pedo dancer was killed by hezbollah drone not long ago (2-3 days ago)… i don’t even think you could say it is “zero” in any world (even as a meme).
don’t worry she will make tiktok dance in hell for you to… i don’t want to say it but you know what indian kike do.
also, my indian kike where is the full stop? huh you forgot again?