The New Media Journal | Hamas Fires Same Heat missile Used by al Qaeda & Taliban

The New Media Journal | Hamas Fires Same Heat missile Used by al Qaeda & Taliban: "Unlike Hamas' homemade primitive Qassams, the two advanced C5K anti-tank missiles fired at Israeli forces on guard duty outside Kibbutz Alumim Sunday, Dec. 6, are of foreign manufacture and must have been smuggled into the Gaza Strip very recently.

Once used from helicopters by the Russian army, these weapons are armed with a 4-kilo heat warhead which rides the thermal waves emitted by tanks and armored vehicles with destructive fragmentation impact.

The S5K started life in China in the 1950s as an airborne missile called Norinco S-5. It was further developed by East European countries in the Soviet era. In the last four years, al Qaeda fighters in Iraq and Afghanistan, along with Taliban, began using the C5K as a ground-to-ground missile against armored American forces."