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Its origin is Russian, but the resistance engineers added a Palestinian touch to it. It was made to destroy military vehicles, but the armor was crushing it, so the resistance fighters developed it until it began to destroy the “Merkava” tank, the symbol of the Israeli military industry.
The “Al-Yassin 105” anti-armor shell was manufactured by me Al-Qassam BrigadesThe military arm of the Islamic Resistance Movement (agitation) in Gaza strip“And used it for the first time in battle.”Al-Aqsa flood“, which it launched on the settlements surrounding the Gaza Strip on October 7, 2023.
Label
The Al-Qassam Brigades named this shell “Al-Yassin 105” after the sheikh Ahmed Yassinfounder of the Hamas movement in 1987, who was arrested by Israel on May 18, 1989, along with hundreds of members of the movement, and released him on October 1, 1997, and assassinated him on March 22, 2004.
Use and development
“Al-Yassin 105” is a shoulder-fired anti-armor RPG missile, manufactured by the Al-Qassam Brigades in the Gaza Strip through the development of the Russian “Tandum 85” missile, which the resistance used for the first time in the “Al-Furqan” battle in January 2009.
With this missile – which also appeared in many Al-Qassam Brigades military parades – the resistance targeted an Israeli troop carrier east of the town of Jabalia in the northern Gaza Strip and destroyed it completely.
In the Battle of the “Devouring Storm” in July 2014, the resistance used a developed Russian model of the “Tandum 85” missile and it proved effective, as it blew up 9 Israeli tanks with it.
In February 2017, Al-Qassam announced that it had developed a local version of the “Tandum 85” missile and called it the “Al-Yassin 105” missile. It said that it had added improvements to it to improve its accuracy and effectiveness against tanks and armored vehicles in general.
The Phalange added, in a documentary film about the martyr Muhammad al-Quqa, one of its field commanders who was assassinated by the occupation, that the “Pantum 85” shell proved effective in the 2014 war and inflicted heavy losses on the Israeli army.
The leader of the Phalange, Raed Saad, said in a testimony in the same film that the martyr Al-Quqa played an important role in developing this missile into the “Al-Yassin 105” version.
The Al-Qassam Brigades announced the use of the “Al-Yassin 105” missile for the first time in the “Al-Aqsa Flood” war, and this was revealed by its spokesman, Abu Ubaida, in a speech on Saturday, October 28, 2023.
This shell was dropped at the beginning of the battle on a tank from the air by a drone, and the resistance fighters also targeted Israeli tanks from close ranges in several areas in the Gaza Strip.
Features and specifications
The Al-Yassin shell consists of a double destructive head, containing two charges that explode in two stages, the first explodes and pierces the outer armor, and the second penetrates the steel of the tank and explodes inside it.
The range of the “Al-Yassin 105” missile is estimated at between 100 and 500 metres, its effective range is within 150 metres, and its maximum speed is 300 meters per second.
Its most prominent specifications and characteristics are as follows:
- High destructive capacity.
- Used against highly armored vehicles.
- It is fired from a shoulder-mounted RPG launcher.
- It has a dual warhead that shatters the mechanism’s outer armor, penetrating it and destroying it from the inside.
- Shell caliber: 64/105 mm.
- Total weight: 4.5 kilograms.
- Effective range: 100 meters.
- Effective range: 150 metres.
- Penetration ability in steel: 60 cm beyond the outer armor.
