Engineering victory

16.03.2013                      05.Nisan. 5773                      Wajikra

Sicherheit & Verteidigung:

Engineering victory

Setting off explosions, building rocket-proof structures, and testing durability and safety are all in a day’s work for the Engineering Corps.

Thirty land mines lay hidden beneath the earth in a water pipe, making up a total of 300 kilograms of explosives. Above, an IDF jeep is parked.
This is not a Hezbollah ambush, but rather an exercise held by the IDF Engineering Corps this week in northern Israel. The aim: to simulate the type of threats the IDF will face if and when it has to enter southern Lebanon or Gaza and engage terror organizations such as Hezbollah and Hamas that have employed the tactic of digging tunnels and packing them with explosives….