USMC Caterpillar D9 armored bulldozer.

To counter the booby traps, anti-tank and anti-personnel mines the IDF sent armored D9 bulldozers to clear the area out of any explosive device and booby trap planted.

The IDF D9 bulldozers were heavily armored and thus did not sustain any damage from the explosions, which were triggered by them as they pushed forwards.

Israeli armored IDF Caterpillar D9 | Caterpillar D9 armored bulldozer | bulldozer, which is used by the Israel Defense Forces | IDF Israeli Engineering Corps | Combat Engineering Corps for clearing heavy belly charge s and booby trap | booby-trapped buildings.

The ICEC operates advance engineering tools such as the IDF Caterpillar D9 armored bulldozer, IDF Puma armored CEV, Armoured vehicle-launched bridges, armored engineering vehicles, EOD robots and electromagnetic mine-detectors.

The IDF Caterpillar D9 armored bulldozers were key factor in keeping IDF casualties low during the Second Intifada, as they were impervious to Palestinian weapons and detonated safely thousands of IEDs and booby traps, some were big enough to destroy a main battle tank.

An armored Israeli Defence Forces | IDF IDF Caterpillar D9 | Caterpillar D9 R bulldozer, nicknamed " דובי " ( Teddy bear ) in Israel.

An armored IDF Caterpillar D9 | Caterpillar D9R Bulldozer used by Israel Defense forces

The best-known use of an armored bulldozer is probably the use by the Israeli Defence Forces ( IDF ) of the IDF Caterpillar D9, for earth moving, clearing terrain obstacles, opening routes, detonating explosive charges, running over protesters, and demolishing structures whilst under fire.

Often, when the wanted Palestinian militants barricaded inside a building, Yamam force put a siege on it while IDF Caterpillar D9 armored bulldozers forced them out by razing the structure.

File: IDF-D9-ZE001. jpg | The militarized Caterpillar D9 armored bulldozer allows for earthmoving projects in a combat environment.

An Israeli armored Caterpillar Inc. | Caterpillar Caterpillar D9 | D9R bulldozer.

The Israeli Armored CAT D9 — nicknamed Doobi (, for teddy bear )— is a Caterpillar D9 armored bulldozer that was modified by the Israel Defence Forces, Israeli Military Industries and Israel Aerospace Industries to increase the survivability of the armored bulldozer in hostile environments and enable it to withstand heavy attacks, thus making it suitable for military combat engineering use.

Yahalom also uses the up-armored IDF Caterpillar D9 bulldozer and the remote-controlled " Raam HaShachar " version of the D9 ( which were found extremely useful for special operation and CT duties ), an armored Excavator with drills, the IDF Puma CEV, and Nakpuma, a Nakpadon APC modified to Yahalom's requirements.

The Heavy Equipment Transporter ( HET ) is a military logistics vehicle used to transport, deploy, and evacuate tanks, armored personnel carriers, self-propelled artillery, armored bulldozers and other heavy vehicles.

Therefore, new methods like greater reliance on remote techniques such as advanced remotely operated vehicles similar to the British Wheelbarrow or armored bulldozers evolved.

The extensive use of armored bulldozers during the Second Intifada drew controversy and criticism from human rights organizations while military experts saw it as a key factor in reducing IDF casualties.

* December 16 and December 17: Israel launched Operation Orange Iron in Khan Yunis, in which IDF tanks and armored bulldozers entered the west part of the town to prevent mortar shellings.

They often use armored bulldozers when executing those missions.

The Mukataa was later partially demolished by IDF armored bulldozers in order to isolate Arafat.

** Bulldozer Operators: belong to the EVO, these soldiers are operating the IDF Caterpillar D9 armored bulldozers, including under heavy fire.

The Combat Engineering Corps operates heavy equipment and engineering vehicles ( called TZAMA in Hebrew ) such as armored bulldozers, armored excavators, armored wheeled loaders, armored backhoe loaders and more.

The armored Caterpillar D9 bulldozers were cited by military experts as a key factor in keeping IDF casualties low.

However, the Combat Engineering Corps were most known for operating the armored IDF Caterpillar D9 bulldozers, which are cited by many Israelis and military experts as a key factor in keeping IDF casualties low and successfully fighting terrorism.

* In the middle-Gaza town of Deir Al Balah, Israeli tanks and armored bulldozers entered the Al Mahata neighborhood of Jabalia camp.

The armored bulldozers helped open the way for coalition troops to overrun enemy defenses.

Modern warfare was born in this campaign -- periscopes, camouflage, booby traps, land mines, extended order, trench raids, foxholes, armored cars, night attacks, flares, sharpshooters in trees, interlaced vines and treetops, which were the forerunners of barbed wire, trip wires to thwart a cavalry charge, which presaged the mine trap, and the general use of anesthetics.

One of the roles of Ares that was sited in mainland Greece itself was in the founding myth of Thebes: Ares was the progenitor of the water-dragon slain by Cadmus, for the dragon's teeth were sown into the ground as if a crop and sprung up as the fully armored autochthonic Spartoi.

Although the early German Panzerjäger carried more effective weapons than the tanks on which they were based, they were generally lacking in protection for the crew, having thinly armored open-topped superstructures.

These were not ' armored cars ' in the sense implied by the modern term, as they provided no real protection for their crews against any kind of opposing fire.

At the beginning of the twentieth century, a number of military armored vehicles were manufactured by adding armor and weapons to existing vehicles.

A great variety of armored cars appeared on both sides during World War I and these were used in various ways.

Generally, the armored cars were used by more or less independent car commanders.

Some of these vehicles were among the last of a consignment of ex-Royal Navy armored cars that had been serving in the Middle East since 1915.

During the Anglo-Iraqi War, some of the units located in the British Mandate of Palestine were sent to Iraq and drove Fordson armored cars.

" Fordson " armored cars were Rolls Royce armored cars which received new chassis from a Fordson truck in Egypt.

For the first time, armored cars or limousines were put into service for safer transport, with modern versions virtually invulnerable to small arms fire, smaller bombs and mines.

Both, but especially the former, were famed for the cataphract ( fully armored cavalry armed with lances ) even though the majority of their forces consisted of lighter horse archers.

This is closely related to the increase in the size of armies throughout the early modern period ; heavily armored cavalrymen were expensive to raise and maintain and it took years to replace a skilled horseman or a trained horse, while arquebusiers and later musketeers could be trained and kept in the field at much lower cost, and were much easier to replace.

The demi-lancers and the heavily armored sword-and-pistol reiters were among the types of cavalry whose heyday was in the 16th and 17th centuries, as for the Polish winged hussars, a heavy cavalry force that achieved great success against Swedes, Russians, and Turks.

The weapon was mainly used as a weapon against lightly armored soldiers, since it shot small bolts that were often dipped in poison.

There were also an armored car regiment and a mechanized infantry battalion.

As an interim measure, the propeller blades were armored and fitted with metal wedges to protect the pilot from ricochets.

Under the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan ( 1978 – 1992 ), weapon deliveries by the Soviets were increased and included Mi-24 helicopters, MiG-23 fighter aircraft, ZSU-23-4 " Shilka " and ZSU-57-2 anti-aircraft self-propelled mounts, MT-LB armored personnel carriers, BM-27 " Uragan " and BM-21 " Grad " multiple-launch rocket systems and FROG-7 and Scud launchers.

U. S. armored infantry were fully equipped with M2 and M3 halftracks.

In the British and Commonwealth armies, " Type A Armoured Brigades "— which were intended for independent operations or to form part of armored divisions — had a " motor infantry " battalion mounted in Bren Carriers or later in Lend-Lease halftracks.

The Red Army began the war while still in the process of reorganizing its armored and mechanized formations, most of which were destroyed during the first months of the German invasion of the Soviet Union.

In Operation Desert Shield during the buildup phase of the 1st Gulf War, the U. S. Army were concerned about the lack of mobility, protection and firepower offered by existing rapid deployment ( i. e. airborne ) formations ; and also about the slowness of deploying regular armored units.