IDF aims for guided mortar munitions

摘要

The Israel Defence Force (IDF) has issued a request for information to Israeli defence companies for a guidance system that can be installed on mortar bombs to help mollify accusations of war crimes in such urban combat zones as Gaza and Lebanon, writes Yaakov Katz. In 2009, the IDF decided to equip all of its reserve infantry battalions with Soltam Systems 120 mm Computerised Autonomous Recoil rapid Deployed Outrange Mortars (CARDOMs), following their successful deployment by units during the IDF's December 2008 to January 2009 offensive in the Gaza Strip.