Did Assad Transfer a Large Number of M-600 Rockets to Hezbollah?
Israeli elements are attempting to discover whether Hezbollah possesses
quantities of M-600 rockets
Arie Egozi 19/3/2012
http://www.israeldefense.com/?CategoryID=484&ArticleID=1057

Israel is monitoring the movement of advanced weapon systems from Syria to
Hezbollah and is attempting to learn if Assad’s regime transferred a large
quantity of the improved M-600 heavy rocket to Lebanon.

The M-600 is an advanced Syrian-produced variant of the Iranian Fatah-110
rocket. Israel estimates that the Syrian chemical weapons industry will try
to fit a chemical warhead on the M-600 rocket, as Syria’s military industry
already produced chemical warheads for several variants of its Scud
missiles. The rocket’s normal warhead weighs half a ton, and has a maximum
range of 250 km. With such a range, the rocket threatens Israel’s northern
border all the way south to Be’er Sheva.

It seems that Syria did transfer such rockets to Hezbollah, since the
Fatah-110 rocket was developed by the Iranian weapon industry, and is
launched from a rocket launcher similar to the SA-2 Surface-to-Air missile.
The Fatah-110 has a warhead nearly twice the weight of the Scud missiles
that were launched at Israel during the First Gulf War, which weighed about
300 kg. The length of the rocket is approximately 8 m, its diameter is 60
cm, and its total weight is about 3 tons.

According to Yiftah Shapir, a senior researcher at the Institute for
National Security Studies (INSS), Syria’s president is allowing the transfer
of any military system to Hezbollah. “Such a rocket in Hezbollah’s
possession is a problem,” says Shapir. The David's Sling defense system
being developed by the Israeli company Rafael and the US company Raytheon,
is intended to intercept rockets approximately the same size as the M-600.