The system uses small radar-guided missiles to blow up incoming rockets with ranges of between five and 70 kilometers.
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But the Palestinians are getting little beyond sympathy: the world, as they see it, seems content to regard their uprising as a noisy prison riot, with the jailers just happening to use laser-guided rockets to enforce a lock-down on 2.3m people.
Syria and Iran have armed Hizbullah with some 40, 000 missiles and rockets, including hundreds of Scud missiles and guided surface-to-surface solid fuel M600 missiles with a 250 km range and.