Underground Update – U.S. subterranean warfare doctrine revised based on IDF’s experience in Gaza
The IDF showed that tunnel warfare requires teams trained specifically for underground movement, breaching, mapping, and clearance.
The IDF showed that tunnel warfare requires teams trained specifically for underground movement, breaching, mapping, and clearance.
Composed of some 100 highly specialized divers, Yaltam serves as the supreme professional authority for deep-sea engineering, rescue operations, and underwater sabotage neutralization.
Before the ground invasion, military analysts warned of catastrophe.
As women in the IDF continue to break barriers, this group of twenty completed the rigorous, brutal Yahalom combat engineering course—cementing their place among the army’s most elite soldiers.
Senior officers have described this shift as part of a broader transformation in which robots increasingly perform the most dangerous tasks once assigned to infantry and combat engineers.
The IDF eliminated dozens of terrorists and dismantled hundreds of terrorist infrastructure sites, both above and below ground.
Platoons have used drones equipped with laser scanners to create 3D models of tunnel networks.
Soldiers enter a computer-lined room, strap on headsets, and suddenly find themselves inside a damp, narrow tunnel. By Hezy Laing The IDF has embraced virtual
