AL QUDS, Sept 19: The Israeli army is using a new early warning system for the southern town of Sderot which has been on the receiving end of rocket attacks from the Gaza Strip, the Haaretz daily said on Sunday.
The system, hooked up to Sderot's public address system, gives residents around a 20-second warning of an incoming Qassam rocket, which take its name from the armed wing of the Palestinian radical movement Hamas.
It said that the Maamin system, which uses electro-optic sensors and advanced computers, can identify the position from which a rocket is fired and where it will land in less than a second. The average flight time of a Qassam is about 30 seconds. -AFP
