Its origin is Russian, but the engineers of the resistance added a Palestinian touch to it, made to destroy military vehicles, but the armored vehicles were dragging it, so the resistance developed it until it destroyed the "Merkava" tank, the symbol of the Israeli military industry.

Al-Yassin 105 is an anti-armor missile manufactured by the al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) in the Gaza Strip, and used for the first time in the battle of "Al-Aqsa Flood," which it fired at the settlements surrounding Gaza on October 7, 2023.


Nomenclature

The Qassam Brigades named this shell "Al-Yassin 105" after Sheikh Ahmed Yassin, the founder of Hamas in 1987, whom Israel arrested on May 18, 1989 along with hundreds of Hamas members, released on October 1997, 22, and assassinated on March 2004, <>.

Usage & Development

Al-Yassin-105 is a shoulder-fired anti-armor RPG manufactured by the Qassam Brigades in the Gaza Strip through the development of the Russian Tandom 85 missile, which the resistance first used in the battle of al-Furqan in January 2009.

With this shell, which also appeared in many military parades of the Qassam Brigades, the resistance targeted an Israeli personnel carrier east of the town of Jabalia in the northern Gaza Strip and completely destroyed it.

In the battle for "Eaten Storm" in July 2014, the resistance used a Russian model upgraded from the Tandom 85 missile that proved effective, blowing up nine Israeli tanks.

Al-Yassin 105 missile proved effective against Israeli (French) Merkava tanks

In February 2017, al-Qassam announced that it had developed a local version of the Tandom 85 missile, which it called the Al-Yassin-105 missile, and said it had added improvements to it that improved its accuracy and effectiveness against tanks and armored vehicles in general.

The Brigades added in a documentary about the martyr Muhammad al-Quqa, one of its field commanders assassinated by the occupation, that the "Bantoum 85" shell proved effective in the 2014 war and inflicted heavy losses on the Israeli army.

Brigade commander Raed Saad said in a testimony in the same film that the martyr al-Quqa had an important role in developing this shell into the "Yassin 105" version.

The Qassam Brigades announced the use of the "Al-Yassin 105" shell for the first time in the "Al-Aqsa Flood" war, and its spokesman Abu Obeida revealed this in a speech on Saturday, October 28, 2023.

At the beginning of the battle, the missile was shot down on a tank from the air by a drone, and the militants targeted Israeli tanks at close range in several areas of the Gaza Strip.

Features & Specifications

The Yassin projectile consists of a double destructive warhead, containing two gaskets that explode through two stages, the first exploding and piercing the outer shield, and the second penetrating the tank's steel and exploding inside it.

The Yasin 105 missile has an estimated range of 100 to 500 meters, an effective range of 150 meters, and a top speed of 300 meters per second.

The most prominent specifications and characteristics are the following:

  • High destructive capacity.
  • Used against highly armored vehicles.
  • It is launched with a shoulder-mounted RPG.
  • It has a double warhead that shatters the vehicle's outer shield, penetrates it and destroys it from the inside.
  • Shell caliber: 64/105 mm.
  • Total weight: 4.5 kg.
  • Effective range: 100 meters.
  • Impact range: 150 meters.
  • Penetrating capacity in steel iron: 60 cm after the outer shield.