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Source: https://www.jpost.com/opinion/article-874525
How Israel Is Rewriting Urban Warfare
(Jerusalem Post) Yonah Jeremy Bob - A military exercise on Tuesday viewed by foreign military officials displayed the IDF's new battle tactics. The IDF used four different drones. A large one gave the forces a bird's eye view of the entire wider battle zone, before, during, and after the assault. A medium-sized drone was used to drop grenades to destroy IEDS or Hamas fighters. Another medium drone flew straight into the second-floor position of a Hamas enemy fighter in kamikaze style. A small drone the size of a human hand snuck into a multi-story, six-room structure to scan and locate enemy forces and boobytraps, returning to the structure repeatedly. The drill showed how the IDF brought in a group of tanks along with a D9 bulldozer on one flank of the village to draw the Hamas defenders' attention, and then sent in other tanks with a different D9 bulldozer from another direction for the main assault. The D9s clear out potential IEDs before the infantry comes in. At one point, an F-35 dropped a one-ton bomb on an enemy position with IDF forces only 130 meters away in a stunning show of joint army-air force precision.