Israel developing auto Gaza defenses

The Israel Defense Forces is working on a system of automatic sensors that would shoot anything entering a 60-kilometer stretch of border between Israel and Gaza. The “See-Shoot” system is made up of a series of remote-controlled weaponry, ground senors and manned and remote-control aircraft. When the sensors detect something, an operator in a remote location can authorize its destruction, according to defensenews.com. The system, built by Rafael, would allow Israel to protect its border without deploying infantry. It was first introduced in 2005, before Israel withdrew from Gaza. “We understood from [our May 2000 withdrawal from] Lebanon that in Gaza, we’re going to have to compensate for lack of depth and limited freedom of maneuver,” Gabi Ashkenazi, then the outgoing IDF deputy chief of General Staff, said at the time. “We plan to do this through a technological process that allows us to transform depth, which we’ll lack, into time, which we will create with pictures served up instantaneously through the network.”