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Source: https://www.israelhayom.com/2021/10/11/sci-fi-style-weapons-aim-to-change-future-of-warfare/
For the IDF, New Weapons May Change Future of Warfare
(Israel Hayom) Hanan Greenwood - Recently I made the first-ever visit by a journalist to Elbit's classified labs where a lot of the most secret technologies in the IDF are being developed. The IDF has already brought into service autonomous and robotic vehicles, as well as drones on a large scale. It has also assimilated night vision systems for almost all infantry soldiers. Digital systems used by infantry officers provide immediate information on the enemy's position and targets for immediate strikes that are updated by intelligence personnel in real-time. During the next war, thousands of "seismic pearls" - small circular sensors that carry an antenna - will be dropped from planes and drones, and will be able to detect movement on the ground to give an up-to-date situational picture to digital army systems. "The digital ground army gives us intelligence that we have never had before. There is nothing like it anywhere in the world. It's in another league," said Col. (res.) Arik Avivi. "If we had these capabilities in previous operations...we would have lost far fewer soldiers."