Tuesday Israel Hayom is reporting a historic first achieved by the IDF during recent ground operations in Gaza.

Israel deployed an unmanned transport vehicle during the fighting in Gaza during Operation Protective Edge.

“This is history,” Lt. Avidav Goldstein, the head of the IDF’s unmanned vehicle unit, said. “I feel we really broke ground in this realm. This is the first time in history, throughout the world, that such a thing has been done.”

The IDF modified an old M113 APC (the type of APC in which seven Golani Brigade soldiers were killed by an anti-tank missile in Shujaiyya), giving it the ability to carry several tons of supplies to soldiers in the field without endangering lives.

The remotely controlled transport can travel up to 50 kilometers per hour and carry up to four tons of supplies.

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