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Asymmetrical Warfare

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The current [Israeli] air force chief, Maj. Gen. Elyezer Shkedy, said in an interview that collateral damage had been decreasing from one civilian death per assassination in 2002 to one civilian death for every 25 terrorists killed in 2005. One reason was technology, Yaalon said. At first, Apache helicopters fired Hellfire antitank missiles, he said. Yaalon asked Rafael Armament Development Authority, a Defense Ministry affiliate, to manufacture smaller warheads. “A person isn’t a tank,” said Avi Galor of Rafael, who supervises a team that is miniaturizing missiles. Rafael is developing “the Firefly,” a warhead the size of a soda bottle. Galor said, “We want to kill terrorists — and not little girls, and it’s on CNN, and you can’t explain it.”

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