Konkurs & Kornet.

This is coolbert:

It seems that the Hezbollah have other Russian designed anti-tank-guided-missiles [ATGM] in addition to the Metis-M and the RPG-29. Other ATGM that give Hezbollah gunners a formidable capability.

ATGM such as the Konkurs and Kornet.

The more formidable of the two, the Kornet is laser guided and possesses the dual tandem High Explosive Anti-Tank [HEAT] and fuel air explosive warhead.

It is apparently the latter [the Kornet] that is causing the Merkava tank so much problem. And also useful as an anti-personnel weapon too. Has the fuel air explosive component that I have NOT even heard about. Gives a more robust capability to a weapon primarily used against ONLY armor.




There are web sites that advertise simulators for these ATGM. Simulators that allow the gunners to train almost anywhere. Even from a home PC it seems!!



Simulators of the type ONLY at one time found in military circles. Even a Hezbollah has state-of-the-art equipment available to it's fighters.

Such simulators were used extensively by the Arab armies when they dallied with the old Soviet Union. During the 1973 between the Arabs and the Israeli, Israeli troops were astonished to see simulator trucks pull up the front lines during lulls in the fighting. Simulators to allow Egyptian ATGM gunners for instance, to train and keep their proficiency at a high level, even during periods of actual combat!!!!

[the ATGM such as the Kornet are second generation ATGM. The ATGM used by the Egyptian in 1973 were first generation ATGM. The gunner had to track the missile and target both at the same time. NOT SO with the Kornet. The gunner tracks the target ONLY.]

Even a nation such as India has an impressive military capability and a burgeoning arms industry. Private firms of that nation also make simulators for ATGM training. Another example of how just about anyone that has the money and the brainpower can have the latest and most advanced military equipment equal to anyone else in the world. Even terrorist organizations!!??

It is EASY to see why Israel was having [given the "truce" holding, was is the appropriate word] such a hard time with it's ground offensive in southern Lebanon. Rough terrain, fighting a determined enemy employing sophisticated weapons and who has preplanned and prepared fighting positions in depth. An enemy that employs tunnels and bunkers perhaps of the log and earth variety as used by the Japanese in World War Two?? An experienced enemy ready to die for their cause. Perhaps even eager to die for their cause!

Recall what Joseph Campbell had to say about Shia martyrs:

"according to Shi'a, martyrs in the cause of Ali suffer only in appearance. Their true bodies are lifted to heaven, while in the hands of their executioners mere substitutes remain."

[at the actual instant of death [death NOT actually occurring], an angel whisks the corporeal body of the martyr to heaven, and an image is left behind for the all to behold. Believers say the image does not decay, but has the smell of musk!!]

[NO, I am NOT making this up. I have actually seen forums on the internet where the participants vigorously say that this is so. Martyrs "images" even weeks later have NOT decayed and smell of musk!!!???]

"The moral is to the physical as three is to one" - - Napoleon.

coolbert.