The IDF previously used systems like the M163 Vulcan, an air defense machine gun, before it was retired in 2006. The ground-based systems would be deployed to defend specific points, such as ...

The term air defense is associated ... a tank-based anti-aircraft system with a twin-barrelled 40 mm gun. Work was also underway on the 20 mm M163 Vulcan system, which would be mounted on an ...

Instead of ‘out with the old and in with the new,’ Israel’s air defense could soon have a healthy mixture of old and new ...

Former IDF air ... air defense, placing them on troop transports ("Nagmash" or APCs), creating the Hovet and Machbet. Hovet, based on the 1968 American M163, had its onboard targeting system ...

However, the Avenger is a lightweight, super portable, surface-to-air weapons system that packs ... in 1988 to replace the aging Vulcan anti-aircraft guns (M163 and M167).