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Israeli System Detected 850,000 Real-Time Targets Across Gaza and Lebanon Wars
Elbit Systems reported that Israel's Tzayad program identified 850,000 targets from October 2023 through 2025. The figure was presented at a London conference by an Elbit executive who is also an IDF reservist major general. A former U.S. Pentagon targeting adviser called the volume highly concerning.
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Israel identified about 1,000 potential targets a day during the first two years of the wars in Gaza and Lebanon through its Tzayad digital army programme, according to a presentation by Elbit Systems. The company stated that a total of 850,000 targets were detected in real time across all theatres between 7 October 2023 and the end of 2025.
Miki Edelstein, an IDF reservist major general and Elbit executive vice-president, presented the data at a land warfare conference organised last week by the Royal United Services Institute in London.
A slide he showed cited more than 20,000 IDF battle plans and 850,000 real-time intelligence targets. Edelstein described the targets as enemies that pop up from under the ground or by manoeuvre, adding that forces want to hit them accurately but lack sufficient ammunition to do so immediately.
Nato’s second most senior military commander, Britain’s Air Chief Marshal Sir Johnny Stringer, sat on the same panel.
The session addressed integrating novel with core capabilities. Elbit supplies the Tzayad system, which maps friendly and enemy positions, and earlier this year won a contract to add artificial intelligence for tactical decisions. An Elbit spokesperson said the 850,000 figure reflected aggregated system activity and operational data rather than the number of enemy targets or actual strikes.
The spokesperson stated that the numbers demonstrate the volume of information processed by the Israeli military. Wes Bryant, a former senior targeting adviser at the U.S. Pentagon, said it was impossible for soldiers to adequately assess each piece of information at the volumes indicated.
