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Where are the bombs and missiles (Original Post) roody Jul 2014 OP
The Rockets From Hamas, And The Iron Dome That Could Use Patching Jefferson23 Jul 2014 #1
No factory of origin info there. roody Jul 2014 #2
On the other hand, they also have an arms industry. Igel Jul 2014 #4
Hamas makes homemade rockets, but many come from Syria & Iran. n/t shira Jul 2014 #3

Jefferson23

(30,099 posts)
1. The Rockets From Hamas, And The Iron Dome That Could Use Patching
Sat Jul 12, 2014, 08:26 PM
Jul 2014

For more on the rockets now used by Hamas and Hezbollah, Robert Siegel speaks with Ted Postol, a professor of science, technology and national security policy at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Postol also comments on Israel's pursuit of an upgraded defense system.

http://www.npr.org/2014/07/09/330183774/the-rockets-from-hamas-and-the-iron-dome-that-could-use-patching

Igel

(35,282 posts)
4. On the other hand, they also have an arms industry.
Sat Jul 12, 2014, 10:36 PM
Jul 2014

Their military products are purchased by other countries. It's a third or so of their export earnings. Iron Dome is sort of co-produced with the US. They make their own Merkaba tanks. They make a variety of missiles. Some that they use are probably US-produced--it's hard to have a great variety of production when you're a small country--but it's an open question as to how much guilt for what's happening in Gaza we can lay at our own feet.

When it comes to planes and to ships they rely on the US.


Hamas has its own rocket production capacity. It's one of the reasons that a lot of stuff like metal tubing--things that we look at and say, "That's needed for sewage treatment plants"--doesn't get imported to Gaza. As with the big concrete slabs that were to be used for housing (but which wound up lining hundreds of meters of smuggling tunnels) not everything imported for a given purpose is used for that purpose. Some things go to smuggling. Some things go to provide military capability. Instead of helping the people that really need it.

Iran's the biggest benefactor after that. And whoever they get their stuff from. Iran tries to be self-sufficient but imports stuff from China and/or Russia, often copying or mimicking technology.

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