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2007-03-10 Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Israel Develops Remote Air and Land Combat Robots
(IsraelNN.com) Israel has developed the capabilities to engage in both air and land combat via remote control.

Israel’s Air Force received the Heron (Mahatz in Hebrew) unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) from Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) Thursday. The UAV is called the Shoval by the IAF and expands Israel’s capabilities greatly.

The Heron has a 50-foot wingspan, can fly at an altitude of up to 30,000 feet and carries a 550-pound payload. It can fly up to 30 hours without refueling and can be operated completely remotely. The large UAV can identify the launch sites of missiles as well as deliver air-to-surface missiles itself, eliminating targets as far away as Iran.
Herons over Teheran (a good name for a movie).
It will be phased in at the expense of the older Sarcher model. The Heron is considered the most advanced UAV in the world and can carry the largest payload as well. Israel leads the UAV market and is currently producing several models on rush order for US troops in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Another Israeli defense company, Elbit Systems, has designed a new robot that can enter a combat zone, hurl grenades and shoot an automatic pistol at enemy forces.
Reach fer your gun, Ahmad.
Called the VIPeR, the robot is about the size of a small television. The machine moves on tread and is "undeterred by stairs, rubble, dark alleys caves or narrow tunnels," according to Elbit.
The last TV program many a Paleo'll see.
Elbit says the machine has bomb-detecting capabilities as well and greatly reduces the risk to soldiers in hand-to-hand combat situations such as those encountered in the war against Hizbullah terrorists last summer.
Posted by gromgoru 2007-03-10 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11145 views since 2007-05-07]  Top

#1 RENSE.com > ISRAEL orders citizens in Egypt + Jordan to leave immediately due to security.
Posted by JosephMendiola 2007-03-10 00:21||   2007-03-10 00:21|| Front Page Top

#2 I hope you washed your keyboard after visiting Rense, Joe. You might also look into getting a tetanus shot.
Posted by Seafarious">Seafarious  2007-03-10 00:28||   2007-03-10 00:28|| Front Page Top

#3 If you haven't read it. My online novel about these kinds of military robots - Autonomous Operation.
Posted by phil_b 2007-03-10 00:34||   2007-03-10 00:34|| Front Page Top

#4 Oh, goody. Zionist Killbots(tm).
/snark
I wonder how long untill the cry of "apartheid killbots" or some other such insanity comes out.
Posted by N guard 2007-03-10 01:23||   2007-03-10 01:23|| Front Page Top

#5 Dr. Susan Calvin was heard to comment, “How dare they.”
Posted by Eric Jablow">Eric Jablow  2007-03-10 07:32||   2007-03-10 07:32|| Front Page Top

#6 If I know my regulars (just 19 years old kids), sooner or later one of these vipers will be caught in Chen (acronym for female corps in Hebrew) showers.
Posted by gromgoru 2007-03-10 09:25||   2007-03-10 09:25|| Front Page Top

#7 Y'all MUST read the Keith Laumer BOLO series, intelligent tanks, absolutely loyal, extremely versitile, and downright friendly to the right folks, death on treads to the baddies, great ideas. great combat, especially when outnumbered or out gunned.
Posted by Redneck Jim 2007-03-10 10:33||   2007-03-10 10:33|| Front Page Top

#8 This is a good step, but wake me when they get the Flaterpillar robotic bulldozers. Specializing in flattening "peace activists" and making Saints out of them.
Posted by BA 2007-03-10 15:53||   2007-03-10 15:53|| Front Page Top

#9 Meanwhile the Indian Army Chief is in Israel, shopping for UAVs and other high tech weapons...



Marking a growing defence relationship, Army chief General JJ Singh is visiting Israel and is scheduled to hold a wide range of discussions, including training for elite Special Forces, joint exercises and anti-terrorism and infiltration strategies.

General Singh is the first Army chief to visit Israel, which is the second biggest defence partner of India with an annual trade crossing $10-billion-mark.


The Israeli imprint is now visible in almost all spheres of the Indian defence forces and industry as it is world leader in electronic warfare, hitech avionics and upgradation of weapon systems, including guns and aircraft.

Besides holding meetings with his counterparts, General Singh is also expected to explore possibilities of having joint exercises between the Special Forces of the two countries, sources said here on Thursday.

The two countries have never held a joint exercise even after diplomatic relations were established in 1990 and the subsequent years witnessing robust defence ties. In fact, the Israelis supplied weapons from their operating units when India sought equipment at the height of the Kargil war, thereby signalling a trusted relationship.

While IAF chief Air Marshal SP Tyagi and his predecessor S Krishnaswamy had visited Israel, the first visit by an Indian Army chief holds special significance in the backdrop of terrorism and infiltration faced by both the countries.

The Indian Army is operationally deployed for the past 12 years in Jammu and Kashmir and is facing the scourge of terrorism and infiltration. Similarly, the Israeli Army is also fighting terrorism unleashed by Palestinian terrorists, Hizbollah and is surrounded by hostile nations.

Both the armies are keen to learn from each other's rich and varied operational experience and General Singh is likely to firm up an institutional mechanism for this purpose.

The Army chief, meanwhile, is also expected to visit some defence manufacturing establishments, including those manufacturing artillery guns, hitech weapons for the Special Forces, anti-infiltration devices like thermal imagers and specialised mines, sources said.

The Indian Army is using the Israeli manufactured infantry rifles for the past few years in Kashmir and the 750-km long anti-infiltration fence along the Line of Control is fitted with Israeli anti-personnel devices like thermal imagers.

The volume of defence business between the two countries can be gauged from the fact that Israel has already supplied Barak missiles to the Navy, night fighting devices to the Army and the Air Force, improving the radar network of the IAF supplying, besides hitech electronic warfare and information technology. The IAF will also get four Phalcon airborne early warning radar systems (AWACS) early next year thereby enhancing manifold its reconnaissance capabilities.
Posted by John Frum 2007-03-10 17:14||   2007-03-10 17:14|| Front Page Top

#10 #7 Field test, RD.
Posted by gromgoru 2007-03-10 19:38||   2007-03-10 19:38|| Front Page Top

#11  sooner or later one of these vipers will be caught in Chen (acronym for female corps in Hebrew) showers.

hee hee, unstopable, real-time videotransmissin.
Posted by Shipman 2007-03-10 19:55||   2007-03-10 19:55|| Front Page Top

#12 the Israelis supplied weapons from their operating units when India sought equipment at the height of the Kargil war, thereby signalling a trusted relationship


Jeez! Out of WarStocks? That's a trusted relationship.
Posted by Shipman 2007-03-10 20:07||   2007-03-10 20:07|| Front Page Top

#13 Logistics aside, this makes me wonder if the Indian Army is trustworthy? if so, the Robots will be helpful, if not, keep the untrustworthy in barracks and send a remote.
Posted by Redneck Jim 2007-03-10 21:29||   2007-03-10 21:29|| Front Page Top

#14 

#10 Grom initials correct?

??RD or #7 ??RJ
Posted by RD 2007-03-10 23:06||   2007-03-10 23:06|| Front Page Top

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