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| U.S. deploys Israeli detonator to destroy IEDs in Iraq | |
| 2003-12-17 | |
| From Geostrategy-Direct Israel 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.
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| Posted by:Alaska Paul |
| #4 I wonder if the Israeli's are just hitting suspected bombers with fire control radar (i.e. a blasted cone of powerful energy.) Could be the kernal of truth in the death ray rumour. |
| Posted by: Super Hose 2003-12-17 9:50:54 PM |
| #3 I have to figure there are at least half a dozen different ways to rig up an IED so a counter system would have to be pretty sophisticated. However, I imagine if you had a good pulse emitter mounted on a tank or stryker and had it going down the street emitting, it would be very discouraging to the IED jockies. |
| Posted by: mhw 2003-12-17 9:31:51 PM |
| #2 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. I think the previous sentence is a J-school grad trying to wrap his mind around something he can't quite understand. The way I envision this working is by sending out electro-magnetic pulses that are intense enough to induce a high voltage across an electrical blasting cap. Both IEDs and suicide belts need to detonate at a split second notice and must therefore use electrical blasting caps to initiate the explosion. Traditional "fused" blasting caps won't cut it. There are ways to defeat this: shunting the blasting cap until the last possible second, or shielding the blasting cap with a well grounded conductor. Lately there have been several reports of suicide bombers "accidentally" blowing themselves up near IDF checkpoints. This is precisely the type of weapon that would cause those sorts of premature detonations. |
| Posted by: 11A5S 2003-12-17 8:22:55 PM |
| #1 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. ? The bomb emits a signal? Seems like the easy (and American) way is to use some sort of frequency agile transmitter followed up by random .50 caliber to suspicious Coke cans, cadavers, phone booths, Corollas and prayer rugs. When and if these guys learn to lay detonator cord in cement we may have a problem it 20 or 30 years. |
| Posted by: Shipman 2003-12-17 7:47:35 PM |