Scud Missile Launch Pads in Lebanon

Hezbollah has prepared areas for the missiles they received from Syria. The portable launchers remain concealed so that Israel cannot detect them

Arie Egozi

15/3/2012

 

According to foreign sources, Hezbollah has prepared launch pads for the Scud missiles it received over the past two years from Syria. The terror organization conducted several exercises, possibly connected to launching the missiles at Israel, but has refrained from transferring the portable launchers to the launch pads, in order to prevent their detection by Israel’s surveillance measures.
A special unit is responsible for operating the Scud missiles, which is part of Hezbollah’s “launch organization.” Three years ago, Hezbollah established a special unit for operating the long-range rockets that the organization received and will apparently continue to receive from Iran.
Hezbollah has already conducted several quick deployment dry runs of the new rockets it received from Iran after the last war. Experts say Hezbollah also prepared “launch sites” prior to the Second Lebanon War, to where the launchers were now transferred, and from which it is easy to aim at Israeli targets.
Since the 2006 Second Lebanon War, the number of these sites has increased, and as already mentioned, such sites have been prepared for launching the Scud missiles. Israel is assessing that the organization also received the new, advanced variant of the Zelzal rocket from Iran, with a range of 400 km that will enable it to hit any target in Israel’s territory.