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Israel’s advanced military technology on full display during Iran’s attack

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JERUSALEM — Some of Israel’s most advanced military technology was on display over the weekend when its multi-level aerial defense array led the way in striking down an estimated 99% of the more than 350 drones, rockets and missiles that were fired by Iran in an unprecedented attack on the Jewish state.

From the Iron Dome, which in its latest format uses artificial intelligence (AI) to improve accuracy when shooting short-range surface-to-surface rockets, to David’s Sling, which intercepts short- to medium-range and medium- to long-range surface-to-surface missiles, to the Arrow 2 and 3 systems, which is used for longer-range ballistic and cruise missiles, as well as AI-driven aircraft and other technology, Israel’s defensive operation proved it was far superior to the offensive capabilities of the Islamic Republic. 

In a press briefing following the attack, Israel Defense Forces spokesperson Rear Adm. Daniel Hagari hailed Israel’s defensive operation, which was carried out together with partners from U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM), as a «very significant strategic achievement.» He said it demonstrated the «exceptional professionalism» of Israel’s Aerial Defense Array and the «defensive abilities of the air force as well as the army’s military and technological superiority.»

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Tal Mimran, of the Cyber Security Research Center in the Faculty of Law at Hebrew University, told Fox News Digital that broader cyber methods and even AI technology were also likely used in the successful defense operation.

«AI-powered algorithms analyze radar and other sensor data to track incoming missiles and calculate the best time to intercept these more effectively and prioritize targets,» he said. «AI makes the system more effective against a wider range of threats, like drones and other small, low-flying objects.»

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Mimran said the Iron Dome, which Israel has been using for more than a decade to thwart rocket attacks from Gaza and Lebanon, now uses a «significant application of AI to improve system accuracy.»

«Using AI increases the Iron Dome’s success rate to over 90% and reduces operating costs,» he said. «This is important because these threats are becoming increasingly common and pose a challenge to traditional air defense systems, as is evident in the Russia-Ukraine war.»

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Rockets fired by Hamas terrorists from Gaza City are intercepted by the Israeli Iron Dome defense missile system in the early hours of Oct. 8, 2023. (Eyad Baba/AFP via Getty Images)

Mimran also noted that over the past few months «IDF officials have acknowledged using AI-based tools for several purposes, including targeting support, intelligence analysis, proactive forecasting and streamlined command and control.» 

According to Mimran, Israel’s war against Hamas in Gaza has spotlighted the IDF’s Habsora, or «the Gospel,» an AI-based system that is used to generate possible military targets for attack. However, he said, accusations that the IDF has been using AI systems to commit mass assassinations give too much credit to the AI-powered tools currently in use. 

Jonathan Conricus, a senior fellow at the Washington, D.C.-based Foundation for Defense of Democracies, played down the role of AI in the weekend operation, telling Fox News Digital that while the technology is incorporated in some air force systems, «a live event with 300 incoming projectiles cannot be left to AI; there needs to be responsible human in the loop making real-time decisions.»

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Dozens of Israeli Air Force planes were deployed to intercept UAVs and cruise missiles launched from Iran over the weekend. (IDF Spokesman’s Unit)

«I know that senior air force personnel were involved in controlling every aspect of this,» said Conricus, a former IDF spokesperson for the international media. «I find it hard to believe that any significant part of the targeting done [over the weekend] was done with AI.»

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He said that over the past six months – since Oct. 7 when the Palestinian terror group Hamas carried out a brutal attack in southern Israel, sparking a full-blown war in Gaza and daily rocket fire by the militant Shiite terror group Hezbollah across Israel’s northern border, too – Israel has been forced to utilize its innovative missile defense technology.

«All of the systems have been fully operational since Oct. 7 and all have confirmed real-world hits,» Conricus said, adding that Israel’s newest layer of aerial defense, the Arrow 3 system, debuted just a few months ago by intercepting ballistic missiles fired by the Yemen-based Houthis, an extremist Islamist group that is supported and funded by the fundamentalist Islamist regime in Tehran. Both Hamas and Hezbollah are also Iranian proxies.

Israeli defense systems intercept an Iranian missile over Maale Adumim, near Jerusalem, in the early hours of April 14, 2024. (Matanya Reichman/TPS)

«I think that today what we have is a pretty solid and well-rounded air defense that deals with a very wide array and broad spectrum of incoming threats, from very small and fast projectiles like UAVs (unmanned aerial vehicles) to extremely large and lethal ballistic missiles, which are also very fast, tremendously big and carry a ton of explosives,» he said.

Iran’s attack on Sunday – the first ever directly from its soil – brought together all the different tiers of Israel’s defensive system, Conricus said. 

«They are all interlinked and communicate with each other,» he said, describing how a central command office provided an overall picture of the attack as it unfolded, giving a threat assessment in real time and coordinating the entire operation with the U.S. and other CENTCOM partners.

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Iran on April 14 urged Israel not to retaliate militarily to the Islamic Republic’s unprecedented attack over the weekend, which Tehran presented as a justified response to Israel’s recent deadly strike on Iran’s consulate building in Damascus, Syria. (Atta Kenare/AFP via Getty Images)

Conricus said that while many of the innovative defense systems were created by Israel, «a large part of the development was also carried out with the Americans,» allowing «the radar systems and the digital intercepting systems» to communicate with U.S. defense systems.»

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«They were developed together with congressional funding and support,» he said, explaining that there were «a lot of plug-and-play capabilities» and, if needed, the U.S. systems can easily connect with the Israeli system.

According to Israeli army estimates, Iran fired some 30 cruise missiles, 120 ballistic missiles and 170 suicide drones that carried about 60 tons of warheads and explosives combined. While most of the projectiles were shot down before reaching Israel’s borders, two air force bases were lightly hit and a 7-year-old Israeli girl was seriously injured. Forces from the U.S., British and French militaries, as well as from several countries in the region, including Saudi Arabia and Jordan, participated in the operation.

«To coordinate such an attack is not an easy task because all three weapon systems have [different] velocities and performances,» said Tal Inbar, a senior research fellow at Missile Defense Advocacy Alliance. 

He said that the UAVs, mostly Iranian-produced Shahed 136s, would have been fired first because they move at the slowest pace; followed by the cruise missiles and finally the ballistic missiles, which have a relatively short flight time from Iran to Israel, depending on the launch site.

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U.S. CENTCOM Gen. Michael Kurilla, left, meets with Israeli Minister of Defense Yoav Gallant amid rising tensions with Iran. (Ariel Hermoni/IMoD/File)

Inbar noted that Iran’s decision to use drones gave Israel several hours to «prepare itself to the maximum.»

In addition to deploying advanced missile defense systems and scrambling fighter planes, he said Israel also put in place some levels of cyberprotection, including disrupting satellite navigation, which is effective in stopping some of the projectiles from reaching their targets.

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«Ballistic missiles cannot be jammed because they use an internal navigation system, but this is not the case with drones,» Inbar said, noting that Israelis have become used to GPS disturbances over the past six months.

Recent media reports also suggest that Israel deployed its new $1 billion spy plane, the Oron, which provided vital information that was used to track and destroy the drones and missiles in flight. The high-tech jet, which Israel unveiled at last year’s Paris Air Show, is equipped with thousands of advanced sensors. The Oron has the ability to scan vast terrain and gather an unprecedented amount of information at a considerable distance from the targets being tracked. When asked about the Oron spy plane, the IDF did not comment.

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Horror en el metro de Nueva York: prendió fuego a una mujer y se sentó en un banco de la estación a ver cómo moría

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El horror invadió este domingo por la mañana al metro de Nueva York, cuando una mujer fue quemada viva de manera intencional dentro de un vagón en una estación de Coney Island, al sur de la ciudad. Por el hecho fue detenido un ciudadano de Guatemala de 33 años que viajaba en el mismo tren y que se sentó en un banco a ver cómo la víctima moría envuelta en llamas, señalaron fuentes oficiales.

Según la cadena de televisión ABC7, el acusado, sobre el que todavía no pesan cargos concretos, que llevaba «varios años» residiendo en Estados Unidos, pero se desconoce por el momento su identidad.

Tampoco se conoce la identidad de la víctima, pero en su caso porque su cuerpo resultó «totalmente calcinado» y fue imposible su reconocimiento.

La Policía aseguró que la mujer murió por un incendio provocado por un hombre que prendió sus ropas con un mechero. Suponen que antes del ataque se había quedado dormida y que no había tenido interacción con el acusado hasta el final de la línea en Brooklyn, alrededor de las 7:30 de la mañana, hora local.

La Policía aseguró que la mujer murió por un incendio provocado por un hombre que prendió sus ropas con un mechero.

Un video aparecido en varios medios muestra al asesino observando mientras las llamas se propagaban por el cuerpo de la víctima en la estación Stillwell Avenue de la línea F, en Coney Island. «Es uno de los crímenes más depravados que una persona puede cometer», definió la comisionada de Policía, Jessica Tisch.

De confirmarse la autoría del guatemalteco detenido, el crimen se produce en un momento de tensión por la cuestión migratoria, después de que el presidente electo, Donald Trump, haya asociado durante la pasada campaña electoral a los emigrantes indocumentados con el aumento de la criminalidad en el país, sin aportar pruebas que lo demuestren.

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El paso a paso del macabro ataque y la detención del sospechoso

Después de que el tren se detuvo, un video de vigilancia del vagón de metro mostró al hombre acercarse “tranquilamente” a la víctima, que estaba sentada inmóvil, posiblemente durmiendo, y prenderle fuego a su ropa con lo que parecía ser un encendedor. Entonces la ropa de la mujer “ardió completamente en cuestión de segundos”, dijo Tisch.

Agentes en un patrullaje de rutina en la estación de metro Coney Island-Stillwell Avenue olfatearon y vieron humo y descubrieron a la mujer en llamas, de pie en medio del tren. Después de que el fuego fue extinguido, el personal médico de emergencia declaró a la mujer muerta en el lugar.

Sin que los agentes lo supieran, el sospechoso había permanecido en el sitio y estaba sentado en una banca en la plataforma del metro, exactamente afuera del vagón, dijo Tisch. Las cámaras corporales de los oficiales captaron un “vistazo muy claro y detallado” del sospechoso y esas imágenes fueron difundidas públicamente.

El ciudadano guatemalteco señalado como el presunto atacante de una mujeren el metro de Nueva York. Foto EFE/ New York Police DepartmentEl ciudadano guatemalteco señalado como el presunto atacante de una mujeren el metro de Nueva York. Foto EFE/ New York Police Department

Después de recibir más tarde una llamada de los adolescentes al teléfono de emergencias 911, otros agentes de tránsito identificaron al hombre en otro tren de metro y avisaron por radio a la siguiente estación, donde más oficiales mantuvieron las puertas del tren cerradas, registraron cada vagón y finalmente lo detuvieron sin incidentes, con un encendedor en el bolsillo.

Así lo aseguró Joseph Gulotta, jefe de tránsito, quien dijo también que la investigación continúa, lo que incluye determinar si la mujer tenía dónde vivir o no, y el historial del sospechoso.

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El caso fue la segunda muerte en un metro de Nueva York este domingo. A las 12:35 de la madrugada, la policía respondió a una llamada de emergencia por un asalto en proceso en la estación 61st Street-Woodside en el distrito de Queens, y encontró a un hombre de 37 años con una puñalada en el torso y a un individuo de 26 años con varias cortadas en todo el cuerpo.

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El hombre de más edad fue declarado muerto en un hospital cercano mientras que el más joven estaba en condición estable, dijo la policía.

En tanto, el mes pasado un hombre abrió fuego en el Upper West Side y luego huyó a una estación cercana antes de ser arrestado.

En febrero, el conductor de un tren de la línea A fue atacado y herido. A la semana siguiente, la gobernadora del estado, Kathy Hochul, anunció que desplegaría 1.000 agentes de policía y de la Guardia Nacional en el transporte público.

Con información de EFE y ANSA.

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