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The Israeli Artillery Corps can be seen on July 14, 2014, at the Israeli-Gaza border. Israel’s operation Protective Edge had entered its seventh day as the Israel Defense Forces continued to carry out airstrikes across the Gaza Strip, with reports suggesting more than 166 people had been killed, the majority being civilians.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n Photo Credit: Ilia Yefimovich\/Getty Images<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n According to Reiter, land-based launchers and other infrastructure are relatively simple, once they are all connected into a common C4I network. (C4I stands for\u00a0command, control, communications, computer and intelligence.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n “You don’t need to plan or await complex air operations. And because we’re working with GPS systems, we don’t have to deal with fog, smoke or bad weather. From the moment you identify the target, the C4I system serves as the trigger that fires the rockets. Then it’s a matter of one to three minutes, according to the flight time of the rocket. You don’t need to wait for an airplane or helicopter to arrive,”\u00a0Reiter said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n “Capabilities that we only dreamed of lots of years ago are now being deployed. And this allows an unburdening of sorts for the Israel Air Force, which can focus on missions that are essentially air power in nature.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n The former training and doctrine director cited several systems from IMI, the company he now serves, that are ushering Israeli ground forces into the increasingly long-range, precision-strike era. They include:<\/p>\n\n\n\n Prior to his retirement last year, Abudram, the 425 Brigade commander, said his brigade used Romach in live-fire drills and was delighted at the results. “We used it in a big training exercise with the Sinai Brigade and scored direct hits. It was amazing. It embodies what the ground forces can bring to bear in the world of precision strike.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n Both Extra and Romach precision rockets can be launched from the common Lynx launcher, an IMI product that is operational with the IDF Artillery Corps. According to IMI, after the Lynx launches its munitions, it can be reloaded in less\u00a0than 10 minutes, while an advanced fire-control unit renders operations fully automatic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Yet another, much longer-range system under evaluation by the IDF and approved foreign militaries is the IMI Predator Hawk, a 5-meter-long precision rocket designed to carry warheads of up to 200 kilograms at distances of 300 kilometers. “This weapon will deliver precision lethality very deep into enemy territory,” Reiter said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Israel’s Artillery Corps recently inaugurated a school to train officers like the colonel commanding this fires center here in Beersheba, home to the IDF’s Southern Command. The new school, at a base in the center of the country, aims to certify war fighters “in how to act in joint battle, working with intelligence people shoulder to shoulder \u2026 to understand how to attack correctly and to be more selective in matching our firepower to specific targets and scenarios,” Col. Dubi Cohen, then-deputy commander of the IDF Artillery Corps, told Defense News last summer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n According to Cohen, the operational concept driving the IDF Artillery Corps involves three key elements: selectivity, precision and availability. Cohen said the Corps aspires to shorten the time from target identification to target attack as much as possible. “Our aspiration is to get to tens of seconds. There are some places where we can already do this, but other places where this remains a goal. \u2026 But with new weapons coming online and the way we are organizing ourselves, this is not an unrealistic goal for us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n “The world of precision is starting to evolve, from our Romach to much longer-range systems that will come into the force. \u2026 It’s a really significant advancement in the world of attack.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Israeli Artillery Corps is taking on missions traditionally entrusted to air power.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":60348,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_yoast_wpseo_meta-robots-noindex":"","_yoast_wpseo_meta-robots-nofollow":"","_yoast_wpseo_canonical":"","_acf":"","_yoast_wpseo_primary_category":14,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_smg_distribution_targets":[]},"categories":[11,14,47],"tags":[],"coauthors":[2818],"class_list":["post-28111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-global","category-land","category-mideast-africa"],"acf":{"subheadline":"","legacy_arc_id":"DVILJFDQSFFEZDDGIRTE4NFPR4","arc_canonical_url":"\/land\/2017\/02\/21\/israeli-artillery-corps-poised-for-longer-range-improved-precision-strikes\/","remove_feature_photo":false,"is_sponsored":false,"subtype":"","redirect_url":"","disable_inline_ads":false,"native_logo_pretext":"Presented By:"},"yoast_head":"\n