In the early hours of Sunday, Hezbollah fired at least 150 rockets from Lebanon into northern Israel, targeting military production facilities and an airbase near the Israeli city of Haifa.

In those attacks, the Shiite group said it used Fadi 1 and Fadi 2 missiles for the first time, a longer-range weapon that appears to have never been used before, according to CNN

According to movement officials and international media, these missiles come from Syria, and are modified in Lebanon.

A source close to Hezbollah told L’Orient Today that the Fadi-1 is a variant of the Syrian-made Khaybar-1 missile, which Hezbollah is known to modify.

Fadi 1: Range 70 kilometers

Hezbollah pointed out that “the characteristics of the missile Fadi 1 is that the warhead weighs 83 kilograms, the caliber of the projectile is 220 millimeters, its length is 6 meters and the range is 70 kilometers.

This particular one pmissile is tactical and is used in intensive local bombardment to “confuse” defense systems.

It can be launched from fixed or mobile arrays, while being used “to disrupt supply lines and target bases far from the front lines,” Hezbollah noted.

Fadi 2: 100 km range

And that rocket it is ground-to-ground, tactical and used for “area bombing”.

The warhead weighs 170 kg, the caliber of the missile is 302 mm, its length is 6 meters and the range is 100 km.

“The warhead is highly explosive, which makes it effective against fortified sites, infrastructure and large concentrations of enemy forces,” Hezbollah said, announcing that “the missile was launched during the July 2006 war.”