Israel Is Developiong New Technologies To Defeat Hamas's Tunnel Strategy

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Israel Tests Hi-Tech Tunnel Detection System To Fight Threat From Underground -- The Telegraph

Many bemoan fact that such a large number of tunnels dug by Hamas from Gaza into Israel have gone undetected for so long

Deep in the bowels of Tel Aviv's underground, engineers and scientists recently conducted trials of a new hi-tech detection system that aims to eradicate the threat posed by Hamas's underground tunnels.

As international pressure mounts to end the current round of fighting between Israel and Hamas, and the operation in Gaza continues to claim more and more lives, the IDF is racing against time in order to discover as many tunnels as possible.

But once the IDF withdraws from Gaza, there are currently no mechanisms in place to prevent Hamas and others from digging new tunnels into Israel.

In a bid to find a solution, the IDF's elite Talpiot unit has been working on developing a tunnel detection system which was tested in Tel Aviv. Its costs are estimated to be $59 million.

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My Comment: Tunnel warfare is nothing new .... but developing sophisticated technologies to counter it is. I am sure that many countries are now looking at these Israeli developments to incorporate it into their own military and/or conflict situations. The situation on the Korean peninsula and North Korea's use of tunnels to infiltrate South Korea comes to my mind.