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Israel Navy boosts Gaza anti-terror defences
Robin Hughes and Richard Scott
Ashkelon, Israel
JANE'S NAVY INTERNATIONAL - MARCH 01, 2006
The Israel Navy is incrementally developing a new C2 centre in Zikim to stem criminal activities.
This includes the installation of an IAI Elta EL/M-2226 coastal surveillance radar and an electro-optical system.
Following the disengagement of the Israel Defence Force (IDF) from the Gaza Strip in August 2005, the Israel Navy is stepping up its command and control (C2) and maritime interdiction capabilities in the Ashdod theatre command.
Naval sources told JNI that in an effort to stem increased terror and weapon smuggling activities, the Israel Navy is incrementally developing a new C2 centre at Zikim, close to the border with the Gaza Strip, and acquiring new Super Dvora Mk 3 and Shaldag-class fast patrol boats in two batch buys.
The latter will be augmented by new Tzirah (Defender)-class patrol craft operated by the newly established Snapir counter-terror unit.
Wide-area monitoring of the Ashdod arena, which stretches out some 40 n miles from the central Israeli coastal town of Mikhmoret to Rafah on the Gaza Strip, has been significantly upgraded through the deployment of new fixed and mobile radar assets and electro-optical sensors.
This has included the installation of an IAI Elta EL/M-2226 coastal surveillance radar and an electro-optical system at high elevation on top of a chimney at the Rotenberg power station, with a second radar installed on the pierside to provide low elevation coverage.
Sensor data from this and other surveillance installations is networked via radio over internet protocol communications and fused into a single recognised picture for dissemination across all link-enabled assets.
Work has begun at Zikim to construct an additional forward radar site, with the sensor to be elevated atop a new 80 m mast. Coverage will be further augmented by the deployment of additional mobile radar units in the southern part of the Ashdod theatre.
Another measure to deter incursions by militants has seen the navy erect a maritime security barrier just south of Zikim, which currently stretches 160 m into the sea. The navy plans to extend this to a length of some 1,000 m in order to buy additional time to react to any incursions, sources told JNI.
The Israel Navy already operates a similar maritime barrier system, dubbed 'Anaconda', on its northern coastal border with Lebanon.
The TETIS natural gas installation, a critical infrastructure that currently supplies some 40 per cent of Israel's energy needs, lies around 13 n miles off the Israeli coast, just outside territorial waters and in easy striking distance of waterborne terror threats from Gaza.
Given its economic significance, the Israel Navy has declared a series of exclusion zones around the rig and has installed networked electro-optical and radar sensors aboard the platform. Other protective measures for the TETIS facility include a quick response boat manned by ex-Israel Navy special forces and a year-round standing naval patrol.
Israel Navy sources at Zikim said the importance of Egyptian Navy and Palestinian Authority maritime police units in supporting Israel's efforts increased weapons smuggling and potential terrorist incursions north from Gaza. The water area lying off Gaza has been divided into three separation zones, governed by the Cairo Map of 1995, an accord between Israel and the Palestinian Authority, which is observed by Egypt.
Israel Navy boosts Gaza anti-terror defences
Robin Hughes and Richard Scott
Ashkelon, Israel
JANE'S NAVY INTERNATIONAL - MARCH 01, 2006
The Israel Navy is incrementally developing a new C2 centre in Zikim to stem criminal activities.
This includes the installation of an IAI Elta EL/M-2226 coastal surveillance radar and an electro-optical system.
Following the disengagement of the Israel Defence Force (IDF) from the Gaza Strip in August 2005, the Israel Navy is stepping up its command and control (C2) and maritime interdiction capabilities in the Ashdod theatre command.
Naval sources told JNI that in an effort to stem increased terror and weapon smuggling activities, the Israel Navy is incrementally developing a new C2 centre at Zikim, close to the border with the Gaza Strip, and acquiring new Super Dvora Mk 3 and Shaldag-class fast patrol boats in two batch buys.
The latter will be augmented by new Tzirah (Defender)-class patrol craft operated by the newly established Snapir counter-terror unit.
Wide-area monitoring of the Ashdod arena, which stretches out some 40 n miles from the central Israeli coastal town of Mikhmoret to Rafah on the Gaza Strip, has been significantly upgraded through the deployment of new fixed and mobile radar assets and electro-optical sensors.
This has included the installation of an IAI Elta EL/M-2226 coastal surveillance radar and an electro-optical system at high elevation on top of a chimney at the Rotenberg power station, with a second radar installed on the pierside to provide low elevation coverage.
Sensor data from this and other surveillance installations is networked via radio over internet protocol communications and fused into a single recognised picture for dissemination across all link-enabled assets.
Work has begun at Zikim to construct an additional forward radar site, with the sensor to be elevated atop a new 80 m mast. Coverage will be further augmented by the deployment of additional mobile radar units in the southern part of the Ashdod theatre.
Another measure to deter incursions by militants has seen the navy erect a maritime security barrier just south of Zikim, which currently stretches 160 m into the sea. The navy plans to extend this to a length of some 1,000 m in order to buy additional time to react to any incursions, sources told JNI.
The Israel Navy already operates a similar maritime barrier system, dubbed 'Anaconda', on its northern coastal border with Lebanon.
The TETIS natural gas installation, a critical infrastructure that currently supplies some 40 per cent of Israel's energy needs, lies around 13 n miles off the Israeli coast, just outside territorial waters and in easy striking distance of waterborne terror threats from Gaza.
Given its economic significance, the Israel Navy has declared a series of exclusion zones around the rig and has installed networked electro-optical and radar sensors aboard the platform. Other protective measures for the TETIS facility include a quick response boat manned by ex-Israel Navy special forces and a year-round standing naval patrol.
Israel Navy sources at Zikim said the importance of Egyptian Navy and Palestinian Authority maritime police units in supporting Israel's efforts increased weapons smuggling and potential terrorist incursions north from Gaza. The water area lying off Gaza has been divided into three separation zones, governed by the Cairo Map of 1995, an accord between Israel and the Palestinian Authority, which is observed by Egypt.
בב"ח. היום היא סגנית מפקד מש"א ראש הנקרה ואחראית על כל הסמכות המבצעית. " זה תפקיד פשוט נהדר", היא מתמוגגת, "מאד מספק, יש לי קרוב ל-60 פקודים, ביניהן בקריות שליטה ומפעילי מכ"ם שאני המפקדת הישירה שלהם. מצד אחד עושים דברים מבצעיים, מצד שני מפקדים על חיילים, יש לי מה לתת להם והתפקיד מאד מעניין. אני אוהבת את החיים במש"א ,זה בסיס סגור, צריך הרבה יותר להסתדר אחד עם השני כי בסוף היום לא הולכים הביתה. לדעת הרבה לוותר. אנחנו על קו הגבול, צריך להתייחס לכל ההתראות המודיעיניות, החיילים צריכים להסתובב עם נשקים ולעבור מטווחים. התפקיד הזה מאד מורכב , עם הרבה אחריות לחיי החיילים".