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Source: https://www.ynetnews.com/magazine/article/sjoqjk11w0
The Women behind the IDF's New Precise Mortar Used in Gaza
(Ynet News) Anat Lev Adler - The Iron Sting, developed at Elbit Systems, is the world's only mortar munition that becomes a target-guided missile, so that its impact is lethal and smart and reaches the precision level of a room in a house. "No [other] mortar munition can provide destruction at this level," says Dr. A., 73, who has managed the warhead field at Israel Military Industries (IMI) for 35 years. (IMI has now been acquired by Elbit.) Elbit VP L. says, "I was an infantry and mortar instructor in the army....I became head of the mortar section responsible for certifying and training infantry fighters for mortars and their operation. Elbit took me on from the army. I've been in the field for 25 years. Like Dr. A. is known as Ms. Warheads, I'm known as Ms. Mortars. Any commander with a mortar problem in Gaza will call me directly from the field....They know me from the army from when I was their mortar instructor. Who else would they call?" With Iron Sting, "a soldier can hit a target with a single mortar in under a minute and, for the first time...there's precise weaponry integrated into the existing system that the soldiers already know how to operate." Z., 52, said, "I've been involved in Iron Sting from the development stage and I'm now responsible for our production. We've been working hard these past few months and we've been very much part of the war."