Video: IDF battalion size live fire exercise
On Tuesday, the IDF held a battalion-sized joint air ground combined arms exercise, which summarized the training of officers for the land forces. The exercise took place at the Shizafon training grounds in the Southern Negev desert, north of the city of Eilat.The objective of the exercise which spans over several days is to demonstrate how officer cadets from different branches and corps operate together, in a battalion size, ground/air combined arms operation. During the exercise, training school cadets from the infantry, engineering, armored, and artillery corps are practicing complex combat techniques, in open and urban areas, during day and night, breeching through anti-tank obstacles and mine fields, calling fire support by artillery and the air force, and coordinating logistical support, by simulating casualty evacuations and aerial re-supply.For those who'd like to see the Trophy system in action, I posted video of it here.
For the first time the armored elements in the exercise employed the new Trophy active protection system, as part of the fielding of the first Trophy equipped Merkava 4 battalion. During the demonstration, a Spike anti-tank missile was fired against one of the Merkava 4 tanks, to be defeated by the tank’s active protection system (this clip is not shown on the video.) Mini-UAVs from the Artillery Corps’ new UAV squadron were also used.
There's also IDF video of Tuesday's exercise, so let's go to the videotape (sorry, narrative is Hebrew only).
The speaker in the last 30 seconds or so is IDF Chief of Staff Gabi Ashkenazi, who says that in the next war, the IDF must win decisively so that no one asks who won. What a refreshing thought.
posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 5:22 PM
2 Comments:
We can only hope future Ehud K.Olmerts don't tie the IDF's hands behind its back.
Norman, it's not the Olmerts.
It's the Israeli Supreme Court, press and Europe funded left of Mars self-loathing organizations that tie our soldiers' hands behind their back.
And I'll add mention of Assa Kasher's name here as well, father of today's IDF's self-inflicting ethics directives.
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