Hezbollah's sophisticated anti-tank missiles are perhaps their deadliest weapon in with their ability to pierce Israel's most advanced tanks. Hezbollah has fired Russian-made Metis-M anti-tank missiles and owns European-made Milan missiles, the army confirmed on Friday.
In the last two days alone, these missiles have killed seven soldiers and damaged three Israeli-made Merkava tanks — mountains of steel that are vaunted as symbols of Israel's military might, the army said. Israeli media say most of the 44 soldiers killed in four weeks of fighting were hit by anti-tank missiles.
Hezbollah gets almost all of its weaponry from Syria and by extension Iran, including its anti-tank missiles. That's why cutting off the supply chain is essential.
Besides the anti-tank missiles, Hezbollah is also known to have a powerful RPG known as the RPG29. These weapons are also smuggled through Syria and were previously used by Palestinian terrorists in Gaza to damage tanks.
On Friday, Jane's Defense Weekly reported that Hezbollah asked Iran for "a constant supply of weapons" to support its operations against Israel. The report cited Western diplomatic sources as saying that Iranian authorities promised Hezbollah a steady supply of weapons "for the next stage of the confrontation."
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