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Rafael's Fire Weaver target acquisition and engagement system is set for several demonstrations with armed forces around the world, a company spokesperson revealed to at the International Armoured Vehicles 2022 conference in London. Janes Si...
Rafael outlines future infantry concept 30 April 2021 by Yaakov Lappin Israel’s Rafael is developing a range of systems, many of which are entering service with the Israel Defense Forces (IDF), under its ‘Future Infantry Soldier’ concept. Rafael has developed ‘smart’ binoculars to enable infantry to interface with its Fire Weaver system. (Rafael Advanced Defense Systems) “This concept is based on a number of working assumptions, including the need to give individual infantry soldiers optimal situational awareness (SA) capabilities in the combat arena, optimal lethality and surviva...
ARMOR: Merkava Matures And Mutates April 4, 2021: Israel is the smallest nation in the world to design and build its own tanks. This was the result of the 1973 Arab-Israeli War, which took Israel by surprise and inflicted heavy losses before Israel counter-attacked and defeated Egypt and Syria and their larger number of modern Russian tanks. Israel carefully analyzes the results of each war it fights and makes changes to deal with problems encountered. The 1973 war prompted Israel to start designing and building its own tanks. By 1979 the 61-ton Merkava...
‘We’re supposed to be dead’: Israeli tank protection system has transformed land warfare February 21, 2021 Rafael‘We’re supposed to be dead’: Israeli tank protection system has transformed land warfare By Yaakov Lappin, JNS When Michael Lurie, vice president at Rafael Advanced Defense Systems and head of its Maneuver Systems Directorate, recalls the first time that the company’s Trophy system went into action, he gets goosebumps. The year was 2011, and an Israel Defense Forces tank was on the border with Gaza. In a recorded encounter, tank crew members were conducting a lookout ...
Rafael’s Trophy system has amassed more than 1 million operational hours and saved countless lives in combat since 2011. It’s now installed on a growing number of armored vehicles, including on four American tank brigades.