What are the pros and cons of using rockets and rocket launchers compared to traditional artillery during war?
What can rockets do which other weapons cannot do?
what are the strengths and weaknesses of rockets?
figured I would ask this question given they are the number #1 weapon choice preferred by Hamas militants.
Rockets::–pros
1-Low cost
2-long range
3-portable (can be carried in normal cars or even hands)
4- can be fired from Air or sea
Artilallery:Cons
1-Artiallery Machines are very costly (like Boforce)
2-They are very heavy..
3-Moving the artillary guns form one location to another is very dificult
mostly they are as heavy as a tank
4-Artillery can only b fired from ground
So for hamas ..they dont hav large funds for artillary
even if they do it will b impossible to move the artillery guns from 1 location to another without warning the Israil spy sattelites
And if hamas fires any artillery shot then that that gun can b nutralized by the israil planes within hours
and i dont think hamas has the tech or money to buy wapanes like Missiles or planes to attack deep in israil
so it is the only choice they got
Well its all they can afford, they make the rockets themselves using chemicals that the mix in a compound bucket. Thats why they are so inaccurate and fired blindly into israel. Its by no means a "weapons grade" rocket by any military standards, its like a glorified pipe bomb. Just on a much larger scale.
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it’s small, one or two man operation, for the law rockets and RPG type munitions, and there are a bunch left over from other wars. I think what you are talking about would be short range, like line of site distance to target. Artillery is a long range coordinated strike, involving heavy pieces of equipment, and computers, and mathematics to set charges and fuze types to get the desired results. So you see the artillery uses different deployment tactics than squad based weapons, and longer range yet are the bigger missile systems which like artillery employ a forward observer (closer to the target) to paint the destination of the munitions with a laser. In artillery they didn’t use a laser but called back corrections, like add 120 yards then readjust. I really don’t think that those are the number1 choice of hamas militants, but their effectiveness even when wielded by 3rd grade intelligence cannot be overstated. Any rifle using 7.62 mm ammunition is by far more deadly, available, and concealable, than a rocket the size of a trombone case, which only has one immediate shot.
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Wouldn’t that be funny if that actually was Vladimir Putin tying to get military advise on Yahoo?
Rockets::–pros
1-Low cost
2-long range
3-portable (can be carried in normal cars or even hands)
4- can be fired from Air or sea
Artilallery:Cons
1-Artiallery Machines are very costly (like Boforce)
2-They are very heavy..
3-Moving the artillary guns form one location to another is very dificult
mostly they are as heavy as a tank
4-Artillery can only b fired from ground
So for hamas ..they dont hav large funds for artillary
even if they do it will b impossible to move the artillery guns from 1 location to another without warning the Israil spy sattelites
And if hamas fires any artillery shot then that that gun can b nutralized by the israil planes within hours
and i dont think hamas has the tech or money to buy wapanes like Missiles or planes to attack deep in israil
so it is the only choice they got
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