IDF Fighters Go Underground for Subterranean Warfare Training

摘要

Soldiers from the Israeli Army's Kfir Infantry Brigade recently trained with sophisticated robots and elite Special Forces to learn how to fight enemy terrorists in tunnels beneath the Earth's surface. The Lavi Battalion's operations company participated in a weeklong underground combat training mid-July. The unique exercise took place at the Northern Command's central training base and was designed to train the fighters, who normally specialise in the Judea and Samaria region, for combat in all arenas. Underground warfare delivers its own set of unique challenges to soldiers seeking to clear entrenched terrorist positions. Given the technological difficulty in gaining an image of what is taking place beneath the surface, combined with the severely limited scope of physical movement for soldiers inside tunnels, subterranean combat demands professional and unique fighting techniques. Among them, the integration of Special Forces and use of the incredible EYEBALL - a ball-shaped camera that conducts a 360° scan of the area in which it is deployed.