Israeli Military authorities reveal information about an incident at took place in Israeli military base
The Israeli military control on Tuesday released details of a serious incident at a military base on Monday.
According to the newspaper “Israel Today”, two aircraft of the Israeli Air Force collided inside the “Htsarim” military base, as a military aircraft intended for training in the wing of another aircraft when taking off for training inside the military base.
The newspaper said that minor damage to the aircraft and canceled flights training aircraft squadron, adding that the pilot was punished and decided to hold him for 4 days.
The Israeli army conducted a field test of a new combat method, combining infantry, tanks and combat engineering into a single combat unit, as part of a major military reform aimed at modernizing the Israeli army, the army said.
This method was tested during an exercise simulating a war in the north against the Lebanese Hezbollah, during which the army also experimented with new technologies, including an anti-missile laser and more accurate artillery, according to the Times of Israel.
The reconfigured unit was called Tsakha Gideon, a Hebrew acronym for the “Gideon” brigade combat team, the IDF’s multi-year “Gideon” plan, a plan to modernize the army, which began in 2016.
Details of this new organizational pattern were revealed earlier in the year and tested for the first time during a maneuver in the Golan Heights last week.