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Israeli Army Trains for Anti-Tunnel Warfare
(Defense News) Barbara Opall-Rome - Funded in part from U.S. military aid, a massive new IDF urban training base with underground facilities for anti-tunnel warfare is under construction in the Golan Heights. The Snir training base is "a city on top of a city, with all the sophisticated instrumentation and live-fire opportunities needed to train all echelons for all scenarios...on the ground and under the ground," said Ground Forces commander Maj.-Gen. Guy Zur. Units will begin training at the new facility next year, with the new base to be fully operational by the end of 2017. In recent months, Israeli contractors supported by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers have dug out tunnels designed to replicate the underground labyrinth that Hamas used in the Gaza war in 2014.