Beating Hamas Tunnels With Drones, Sponge Bombs and Elephant Toothpaste

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The Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) are not providing videos and pictures of the army entering and defeating the infamous Hamas tunnels. There have been reports of the use of drones (flying and ground), sponge bombs, explosives, dogs and bulldozers being used to counter the lengthy Hamas tunnels. There have been videos of Israeli bulldozers digging into the entrances or digging into shallow tunnels.

Whatever is actually being done by the IDF is working fairly well as Israel has lost about 50 soldiers in Gaza operations while eliminating thousands of Hamas.

Here is a review of the different drones and other counter-tunnel technology.

The feasibility of sponge bomb feasibility is supported by known substances like elephant toothpaste. Elephant toothpaste is a foamy substance created by the rapid decomposition of hydrogen peroxide using potassium iodide or yeast and warm water as a catalyst. The reaction proceeds rapidly depending on the concentration of hydrogen peroxide. Youtuber Mark Rober has made large scale elephant and Devil’s toothpaste demonstrations. The expanded volume seems to be hundreds of times the original volume of liquid.

There have been graphics created and reports that a 40-80 gallon garbage bag sized liquid sponge bomb has been made that would create foam that hardens.

There have been DARPA challenges and tests of flying and ground drones going into tunnels. Israel’s military would use drones with machine guns or explosives.

Israeli company, Rafael, has tweeted out video of flying and ground drones for tunnel missions.

2 thoughts on “Beating Hamas Tunnels With Drones, Sponge Bombs and Elephant Toothpaste”

    • not optimized to be environmentally friendly. Optimized to make staying in the tunnels much more difficult and less survivable. Adding more peroxide or other chemicals to force those in tunnels to try to get away from pain or difficulty breathing would make sense.

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