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U.S. deploys Israeli detonator to destroy IEDs in Iraq
From Geostrategy-DirectIsrael has provided the United States a new system to locate and destroy roadside bombs. The Israeli system was provided to U.S. Central Command for the war in Iraq. The officials said the system is still being developed and will probably be upgraded. The Israeli system transmits a signal to detonate improvised explosive devices along roads before they can endanger passing vehicles. The mobile system was first used in Lebanon during the late 1990s and has undergone improvement over the past two years. Israel has also used the IED protection system to detonate explosive belts used by Palestinian suicide bombers. No details were available. That will certainly crimp the Paleo style. They will have to go back to a mechanical system to get around the vulnerability of a signal-actuated device. The Israeli system was the first to be sent to Iraq to protect against Sunni insurgency attacks north of Baghdad. Over the past few weeks, the Defense Department has been preparing additional systems for deployment in Iraq. One weakness of the Israeli system is that the system cannot detect the pulse used by the IED. The Iraqi bombs emit a pulse that stems from the remote-control mechanism of the IED. Several Israeli military delegations have toured U.S. Army facilities and demonstrated a number of new systems. These included Israeli armored vehicles, tractors and buses for use in combat operations. In early December, the militaries of Israel and the United States met in Tel Aviv to discuss the lessons from coalition efforts to stabilize Iraq. The delegations were said to have discussed a range of Israeli technological and operational capabilities that stemmed from the Israeli-Palestinian war in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. Symbiosis in action.
Posted by: Alaska Paul 2003-12-17 |
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