The company was founded by Michal Mor and Avshalom Ehrlich, who both previously worked at Israeli arms company Rafael Advanced Defense Systems. Smart Shooter’s executive management is made up of Israeli weapons industry veterans.
Additionally, the firm is looking to hire a marketing director to lead business development in India and Central Asia, suggesting that it’s looking to expand its influence in Asia. It also has upcoming exhibitions in Australia and the Czech Republic. Smart Shooter has been showcasing its technology to new countries as well, including at conferences in the United Arab Emirates, Greece, England, France, Spain, Germany, and Poland. The Singaporean Army is also conducting trials of Smart Shooter weapons. Marine Corps, the Dutch Army, the Indian Navy, the German Army, and its technology was selected for a NATO Defense Against Terrorism Program of Work exercise in fighting small unmanned aerial vehicles in 2020. The firm holds contracts with the Israeli army, the U.S. The company’s slogan boasts “ one shot, one hit”, indicating its target detection capabilities are so precise they’re able to hit moving objects with incredible accuracy.Ĭurrently, Smart Shooter has several agreements with foreign militaries across the world and appears to be expanding its clientele. According to its website, the Israeli arms manufacturer uses artificial intelligence, machine learning, and computer vision to turn traditional firearms into smart weapons. Smart Shooter is the company behind the newly-installed weapon. “The Israeli army practices their new technology to check if it’s working or not, then they sell it to other countries.” “Israeli security companies use Palestinians as training objects,” Amro said. Palestinians argue the remote-controlled gun has a more sinister intention than the army is letting on. Smart Shooter promotional material for the company’s booth at the #enforcetac exhibition in Germany “People are terrified.” ISRAEL’S SMART SHOOTER WORKING WITH ARMIES AROUND THE WORLD “I’m afraid every time I pass that this weapon is pointing at me, pointing at children, or women,” he said. The Al-Shuhada Street checkpoint has also been the site of several killings of Palestinians by Israeli forces.Īmro, who passes through the checkpoint daily, is concerned about the accuracy and potential failure of this machine technology. While the weapon will not shoot live fire, sponge-tipped bullets have proven to be fatal, with several cases of Palestinians being seriously injured (such as Palestinians losing their eyes after being hit by sponge rounds) or killed by these bullets. The checkpoint is well-protected with many fences, doors, and gates.”
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“There is no security need to install this automatic weapon there,” he told MintPress News.
But Amro says this area is not a security threat.
The army argues this weapon will be used for riot dispersal, given the checkpoint’s history of demonstrations. According to Issa Amro, an al-Khalil resident and founder of Palestinian activist group Youths Against Settlements, the area is home to 200 families and the checkpoint is used by around 300 families every day. After Israeli-American settler Baruch Goldstein gunned down 29 worshipers at the Ibrahimi Mosque in 1994, Israel shut down the busy road and eventually declared it a closed military area where only residents can pass through. The weapon was placed at a military checkpoint on Al-Shuhada Street, a once vibrant center of Palestinian life in al-Khalil, but is now recognized as a symbol of Israel’s occupation. But critics assert the device is yet another example of Israel using Palestinians as guinea pigs so they can market their military technology as field-tested to governments around the world. Reiterating the remote-controlled gun will not use live fire, the IDF hopes this system will be used to test approved crowd dispersal methods. While it was initially reported that the weapon will fire a wide range of projectiles, the army now states the device is only capable of firing sponge-tipped bullets. The Israeli military installed an automatic weapon at a heavily-trafficked checkpoint in the occupied West Bank city of al-Khalil in September.
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