anti-hail system

Crops wiped out by hail in Shida Kartli, anti-hail rockets ineffective

By | May 30th, 2016|Categories: Environment|Tags: , , , |

(Delta.) TBILISI, DFWatch–Crops were destroyed by a hailstorm in several municipalities of Georgia’s Shida Kartli province on May 26. In the hardest hit village Ebnisi the harvest was almost completely devastated. The local municipality is now estimating the cost of the damage. […]

Anti-hail rocket crashes into house in Georgia

By | September 18th, 2015|Categories: Environment|Tags: |

(Delta.) TBILISI, DFWatch–An anti-hail shell fell on a house in Kakheti Wednesday night, damaging the roof and wall. Delta, a defense company run by the government, installed the anti-hail system in Kakheti earlier this year to protect the harvest. Hail has long […]

Anti-hail rockets deployed to save crops in Georgia

By | May 29th, 2015|Categories: Environment|Tags: , , |

(Delta.) TBILISI, DFWatch–An anti-hail system was activated yesterday and for the first time helped partly prevent a hailstorm from destroying harvest in Kakheti. But part of the harvest was destroyed because the system started functioning 20 minutes late. The State Security […]