June 21,
2008: Israel has developed LORA (Long
Range Artillery Rocket), which is similar to the U.S. ATACMS. Each LORA missile weighs 1.23 tons and
carries a half ton warhead. With a range of 300 kilometers, GPS guidance is
used to land the warhead within 30 feet of the aim point. These missiles are
expensive however (ATACMS, which is fired from a MLRS containers that normally
carries six of the standard MLRS rockets, cost a million dollars each.) It's
cheaper if you can use smart bombs. But if you don't have aircraft up there, or
control of the air is contested, you can get a LORA missile on a target within
ten minutes of the order being given.
