Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs)

Iranian-made Ababil-T Hezbollah UAV shot down by Israeli fighter in Lebanon crisis

'The Israeli air force has shot down a Hezbollah unmanned air vehicle in a night-time air-to-air engagement off the coast of Akka on the Bay of Haifa, northern Israel.

The wreckage indicates the UAV was an Iran Aircraft Manufacturing Industries (HESA) Ababil-T delta-wing, twin-tail, pusher-propeller aircraft. Hezbollah has claimed since 2004 that it is able to field an armed UAV. The Israeli defence force confirms that the UAV "was Iranian", but "as far as we know it was not armed". The UAV was engaged 10km (5nm) offshore by a Lockheed Martin F-16C.'

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