The Qader 1 missile launched this morning by Hezbollah against the headquarters of the Israeli spy agency, the Mossad, In Tel Aviv, it is an improved version of the Noor missile (a copy of the Chinese C-802 missile). The ballistic missile of the Lebanese militia was intercepted by Israel’s defensive shield.
This missile was presented in August 2011. It has a range of 300 kilometers and flies at low altitude. It has high destructive power and can attack destroyers and battleships. It was once described by Iranian officials as “the most powerful and accurate missile in the Islamic Republic of Iran Navy.”
On February 10, 2013, the head of Iran’s Aviation Industries Organization announced the first test of an air-launched version of the Qader and Nasr-1.
Iranian warships have also been armed with domestically-made Qader cruise missiles. “It is the most powerful and accurate missile of the Islamic Republic of Iran Navy,” Rear Admiral Sayyari said. The Qader is also It is used in the Navy’s surface-to-surface and shore-to-sea missile systems, he added.
The Lebanese militia Hezbollah has more than 50,000 fighters based mainly in the south of the country, where it emerged in 1982 as a political and military organization to fight Israeli troops in the midst of the civil war that devastated the country of the cedars.
This Shiite movement could have 150,000 rockets and missiles that – according to the CIA World Factbook – it keeps in its arsenals, many of which are hidden behind false walls in private homes, as revealed by Israeli intelligence. Its military capacity is superior to that of some countries in the Middle East, including Lebanon itself, where Hezbollah operates outside the regular national army.