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Source: http://www.jpost.com/Defense/Article.aspx?id=254251
Hizbullah Has Long-Range Surface-to-Air Missiles
(Jerusalem Post) Yaakov Katz - According to Western intelligence assessments, Hizbullah has taken advantage of the ongoing upheaval in Syria to obtain advanced weapons systems, such as additional long-range rockets as well as sophisticated, Russian-made, long-range surface-to-air missile systems. The IDF believes Hizbullah has received the SA-8, a truck-mounted Russian tactical surface-to-air missile system with a 30-km. range. Hizbullah has also received several dozen more M600 long-range missiles, as well as additional 302 mm. Khaibar-1 rockets, which have a 100-km. range. Hizbullah already has a significant arsenal of M600s, which are manufactured in Syria as a clone of Iran's Fateh- 110. The M600 has a range of 300 km., can carry a half-ton warhead, and has superior accuracy.