Quote Originally Posted by William F. Owen View Post
A.) There are no GPS-guided mortar rounds in service with the IDF, that I am aware of. Yes there is a 120mm mortar round in development, with IMI. It may have reached operational service, but based on other things I know, I doubt it. If this was responsible for the civilian deaths, then a bit more development is needed.
Wilf: I have no idea what the answer is, but Haaretz did report it as a GPS-guided mortar:


Haaretz - 08:51 11/01/2009

IDF investigation shows errant mortar hit UN building in Gaza

By Amos Harel

A preliminary investigation into the fatal shooting by the Israel Defense Forces into a United Nations building in northern Gaza on Tuesday reveals the Israeli troops firing on the building missed their targets by some 30 meters.

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The probe, which was conducted by the Paratrooper Brigade whose troops were responsible for the area, found that the army's location system to pinpoint launch sites indicated that militants had launched a Qassam rocket into Israel from within a yard adjacent to the courtyard of the UN building.

The troops had intended to launch a smart missile to take out the Palestinian launch team but a technical malfunction made this impossible, according to the probe. The commanders of the force instead decided to fire on the Qassam team with mortar shells equipped with a Global Positioning System for accurate fire.

However, the GPS element has an error margin of 30 meters and one of the three rounds fired by the paratrooper force slammed into the building owned by the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East, or UNRWA.