Quote (Santara @ May 15 2011 02:24pm)
The rocket basics are the same regardless of whether it's launched from a truck, and just because Hamas calls their Qassam, and Islamic Jihad calls their Al Quds, and Fatah calls theirs Kafah, doesn't change the fact that these un-aimed indirect fire artillery rockets are commonly called Katyushas, regardless of who makes them. Obviously some are better-made (in the case of Hezbollah, they have access to old Soviet equipment), but these rockets are all Katyushas. It's kind of like calling bandages "band-aids," even if they're not band-aid brand.
Hahaha, typical ignorant american. As discerning a worldview as a hammer who sees only nails, eh?
You can't even tell the difference between lebanon and their truck mounted, soviet manufactured katyusha rockets which are mobile artillery, and the homemade bottle rockets that palestinians build in their houses and shoot at israel.
About the same level of technical sophistication of what the chinese were shooting at each other 2000 years ago, compared to a god damned abrams tank.
But I bet you could tell me the difference between a McRoyale with Cheese and a Big Mac, hahaha.
Just so you know, because this is a complicated middle eastern affair of which you are woefully ignorant- the rockets used by lebanon and those used by palestinians are completely utterly different. One is a modern weapon, one is a toy rocket jury rigged.
Katyushas were developed to combat land war tactics on the soviet front to provide a highly mobile artillery that could unload and move away before the counter barrage came back. They are sophisticated truck mounted weapons.
Qassam rockets are a name for all improvised explosive devices that the palestinians shoot at israel, not actual manufactured weapons but homemade rockets.
They are not similar. You can't call a bottle rocket and a nuclear missile "the same thing". You can't call an AR-15 and a Sten "the same thing".
I've built model rockets as a kid better than what the palestinians shoot.
But Americans only see a black and white world, often quite literally. You're either a redblooded flag waving american who eats at mcdonalds 7 days a week, or you're some arab suicide bomber communist al qaeda member.
You should stick to discerning the different sandwiches the arches offer, because our military man doesn't know the difference between basic weapons.
This post was edited by Goomshill on May 15 2011 04:27pm