The place of the crash, last night (photo: official website, use according to Section 27 A of the Copyright Law)
The unmanned IDF aircraft that crashed last night (Wednesday) in the south of the country is an armed Shuval type aircraft. After yesterday's crash, large IDF forces were sent to the scene to locate and remove its wreckage, which was feared to be found by criminal elements or hostile.
After the crash, the drone array lands for the purposes of investigating the circumstances of the crash.
The "Shuval", also known as "Heron 1", is a product of the Aerospace Industry, and has been performing a variety of missions for the IDF and the intelligence community since 2005. Since then, it has undergone improvement and upgrading processes with emphasis Satellite communications are also secured against cyber attacks and electronic warfare.
The UAV is capable of carrying a variety of payloads such as very advanced radars, electro-optical sensors;
to operate means for collecting signals intelligence, to be a relay station for forces in the field or a connection between IDF communication activities
Crashes of this type of UAV have already been recorded in the past. In 2001, a UAV crashed during an experiment in the Israeli Air Force.
Then, in August 2016, a second crash occurred during a training flight conducted by Israel Aerospace Industries, and in the last case, in September of this year, when the UAV crashed into the sea.
According to foreign publications, in the last decade the IDF expanded its array of UAVs of this model, which were sold to more than 15 countries.
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