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Unit 669 operated in the 2023 Israel–Hamas war, according to the Israeli Air Force. [2] During the war, the unit has carried out medical evacuations for wounded soldiers, and carried out 200 other operations since the beginning of the war. [3] On 6 December 2023, two female soldiers passed the selection process for the elite Unit 669.
90 km/h (56 mph) Eitan ( Hebrew for "steadfast", "firm" or "strong") is an armoured fighting vehicle (AFV) developed by the Merkava and Armoured Vehicles Directorate in the IMOD to replace the ageing M113 armoured personnel carrier in use by the Israel Defense Forces. [7] Its armored personnel carrier (APC) variant lacks the Iron Fist APS, due ...
Local military development. Some of the military equipment developed locally have been: Small arms. Dror light machine gun. IWI Negev light machine gun. Uzi submachine gun. Uzi machine pistol. Desert Eagle semi-automatic pistol. Jericho 941 semi-automatic pistol.
Namer ( Hebrew: נמ"ר, pronounced [naˈmeʁ] ), meaning " leopard ," and also a syllabic abbreviation of " Na gmash" (APC) and " Mer kava," is an Israeli armoured personnel carrier based on a Merkava Mark IV tank chassis. [ 5] Namer was developed by and is being assembled by the Israeli Ordnance Corps.
There are currently 173,000 active soldiers in the Israeli army, including 8,000 commanders. The military has also called up 300,000 reservists to prepare for its largest ever mobilisation, with ...
In an effort to better understand what exactly happened, NBC News has geolocated the three damaged aid vehicles abandoned along a 1.55-mile stretch of coastal highway in Gaza, using images posted ...
The Ansariya ambush took place during the conflict between the Israel Defense Forces occupying South Lebanon and the Islamic Resistance in Lebanon, the armed wing of the Hezbollah movement. A 16-man force from the Israeli Navy’s special operation unit, Shayetet 13, on a mission in South Lebanon in 1997, stumbled into a deadly ambush by Hezbollah.
Israel's Defense Ministry says roughly 3,000 members of the country's security forces have been wounded since Hamas militants stormed into southern Israel on Oct. 7, killing 1,200 people, mostly ...