Israeli UAVs can reach Iran 26, February 2010
Posted by thegulfblog.com in Iran, Israeli-Palestinian Conflict.Tags: Iran, Israel UAVs, UAV
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Israel has brought into production unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) that can reach Iran. The Mideasti blog has a nice article on this which raises two particularly good points.
– Contrary to surprised/concerned/hyperbold-ridden headlines, the existence of this UAV has been known for some time
– It is intrinsically too slow, cumbersome and light-weight to pose any direct threat to Iran. I.e. it can relatively easily be shot down and could not carry heavy ‘bunker-buster’ bombs
The Gulf blog 
[…] have some tactical use for Iran’s military, given that the Israelis recently officially announced that they had produced a drone that could reach Iran, they simply had no choice but maintain parity […]