- The best attack helicopter in the world landed Sunday
in Israel as part of a $650 million military aid package from the United
States.
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- The first three of the eighteen AH-64D Apache Longbow
helicopters that will be known as "Sarafs" arrived today in American
C-5 Galaxy transport planes, the largest transport planes in use in the
world.
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- The new choppers, which are unique for the large radar
dish mounted on top of the rotors, have exceptional precision strike capability,
automatically identifying and locking on missile targets within seconds.
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- Boeing, the helicopter's manufacturer, reports that the
Longbow has also been sold to Egypt, Greece, Japan, Kuwait, the Netherlands,
Singapore and the United Kingdom.
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- The Longbow saw its first combat deployment with the
US in Operation Iraqi Freedom.
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- Like much of Israel's US-acquired military hardware,
the Saraf will receive improvements in its armament and navigational systems,
using technology that does not yet exist in the US.
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- In another technological development, the army weekly
"Bamahane" reported the institution of a new system to be deployed
along the post-withdrawal Gaza fence through which women soldiers will
operate remote-control machine guns in conjunction with cameras and censors
in a bid to stop infiltrators.
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- Remote-controlled observation posts operated by women
soldiers are already in use around Gaza. The operators, watching their
section of the front on computer screens, can direct soldiers to a point
of an attempted infiltration, the weekly said.
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- The new element in the system is that the soldiers in
the command post will be able to aim and fire an array of machine guns
at suspected infiltrators. The weapon will have a range of 1,500-2,000
meters, the weekly said.
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- The remote-control guns would do the job of the soldiers
who now chase down infiltrators.
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