Israel on Saturday released footage it said showed its air force shooting down a drone that crossed into the country’s airspace.
An Israeli military spokeswoman said the drone’s origin was under investigation. It crossed into Israeli airspace from the Mediterranean Sea and was brought down in the Negev desert in the south of the country.
“We had monitoring contact from the ground and from the air. We alerted jet planes that escorted the unmanned aerial vehicle and due to some operational considerations we decided to intercept the unmanned aerial vehicle in the northern Negev area, which has no population,” Lt. Col. Avital Leibovich said, according to the Associated Press.
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It was probably an American Drone sent over by the Obama Administration.
What I thought at first too but changed my mind after reading the following and considering we are their aly, it didn't seem plausible they would shoot one of ours down.
According to the AP, the terrorist group Hezbollah has sent several drones into Israeli airspace in the past. In the 2006 war between Israel and Lebanon, Hezbollah launched into Israel an Iranian-made drone capable of carrying explosives that was shot down. Another drone crashed into the Mediterranean two years earlier.
Good job, Israel! Keep up the good work!
Try to educate yourself instead of Blytheville standing up for Isra-hell.
Research the USS Liberty for a good starting point. Then, research Rahm "the terrible" Emanuel's father's involvement in the Palestinian murders in the middle of the 20th century.
From the description given the drone was Chinese.They get lost from time to time & lose their bearings.My guess is that the drone posed no threat to Israel.They are in a self imposed state of emergency & appear to be looking for anything at all to label a threat.
Uh, 736, if a drone from china was over your house, that would be okay because it was probably "lost" ? Just asking...
Great question.They do go off line from time to time.Drones are programmed to de activate their weapons if they lose signal.Even if it was fully armed and actually crashed the missiles would not explode.My assumption is that it lost contact & went astray.Unlikely that an actual strike was planned in Isreal.
Was American, Israel didn't care.
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