Israel used a slew of new weapons in new ways, during its assault on Hamas earlier this year: "Diamond" engineering teams used mini-robots to help clear booby-trapped houses; gunboats fired modified anti-tank missiles at coastal targets; jets dropped new bunker-busting bombs on Gaza's tunnels. David Eshel has the scoop in the current issue of Defense Technology International.
Left unanswered, of course, is whether all the new gear -- and, for that matter, the whole "Cast Lead" operation -- really accomplished anything substantial. One of the many stated goals of the attack was to quiet the rocket fire that was terrorizing towns in southern Israel. Yesterday, Hamas shot off four more rockets; over 100 have been fired since the "cease fire" that supposedly ended the Gaza war.
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