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Sunday, October 07, 2012

UAV enters Israel's airspace from Mediterranean, shot down by F-16s; origin of craft unknown; IDF thinks UAV sent to gather intel.


The IAF shot down a small unmanned aerial vehicle as it flew over southern Israel on Saturday morning, in one of the most flagrant violations of the nation’s airspace in years.

The drone did not carry explosives and likely had been dispatched on an intelligence- gathering mission, as well as to test Israel’s air defenses.

F-16I fighter jets were scrambled from the Ramon Air Base in the Negev immediately after the UAV was sighted.

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