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https://news.vice.com/video/war-games-israeli-urban-warfare

For a young American who watched a lot of GI Joe, seeing Tze'elim in person is pretty spectacular. It's a life-sized mock up of a city straight out of any Arab Muslim country in the Middle East, complete with a mosque. And, it's teeming with terrorists (usually cute 18-20 year old Israeli girls) trained to fight like Hezbollah or Hamas.

Thankfully Vice doesn't show too much about our tactics, techniques, and procedures, but it's interesting to see a little bit about the types of general techniques we use in urban combat. I have a few critiques of the current method, mainly that IDF troops disproportionately expose themselves in overwatch positions (they should be sitting farther back into the rooms, sacrificing a bit of field of view for concealment) and don't carry enough grenades. That said, it seems to be working fairly well.

Anyway, enjoy!

Well to be fair if its a training facility, they probably have what they got issued for that ex. And having been in the armed forces from memory, you'd know that your issued kit for an ex is usually limited compared to deployment kit, especially when it comes to bombing up.

 motyak wrote:
Well to be fair if its a training facility, they probably have what they got issued for that ex. And having been in the armed forces from memory, you'd know that your issued kit for an ex is usually limited compared to deployment kit, especially when it comes to bombing up.

I'm talking about deployment kit. Loadout is usually 2 grenades to a man with a "pakal rimonim" at the squad level (extra 20-25 grenades in a padded pack).

Operationally, I'd like to see them go to 4 grenades to a man.


When we went to Tze'elim we were "issued" rocks in place of grenades. High fidelity training at its best.