Due to enter service by the end of 2020 if not sooner, the Eitan is quickly getting closer and closer to completion of its development phase, with recently reaching a milestone of rigorous mobility tests.
Tests included driving in all of Israel's types of terrain from the wet and muddy north, to the hot deserts of the south.
The next major milestones of its development will include integration of a turret with an APS, as well as operational tests in exercises with the Nahal infantry brigade that is set to absorb them first.
The turret is developed jointly for the Namer and Eitan, and at least one prototype was integrated and tested on the Namer. Due to systems commonality between the Namer and Eitan, the development of the turret and testing on both will accelerate the process for the Eitan.
Nahal brigade has already started testing the prototype as well a while ago, and may soon implement them into wider exercises as more prototypes are built for that purpose.
It is worth noting that another major component of the Eitan - The Iron Vision Head Mounted Display that provides an Augmented Reality (AR) and Virtual Reality (VR) view, enabling looking through the vehicle and laying important information on the display wherever the operator is looking, has been tested already last year on the Merkava 4 both in its methods of operation and its technical capabilities.
Thus, the Eitan is in very advanced stages of its development.
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