Israeli Fighter Shoots Down Suspicious Unidentified Flying Object

An F-16 fighter has just intercepted an unidentified flying object over the Dimona nuclear research centre – an Israeli nuclear weapon factory in the Negev desert. According to local media reports, it was an engine-powered unmanned balloon.

The Israeli military are “still trying to determine what that entailed”, but, if it really was an engine-powered unmanned balloon, it could have been a terrorist home-made UAV like the ones that experts have been talking about for a long time now. The fact is that, with current consumer-level remote control technology and the miniaturization of explosive and surveillance devices, UAVs could be made by anyone with internet access.

Isn’t 21st century warfare fun? [Ynet]

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    AnthonyP

    Friday, December 17, 2010 at 12:00 PM

    I though Israel claimed that they don’t have “nuclear weapons”.

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      Simon Reidy

      Friday, December 17, 2010 at 12:29 PM

      Israel’s official position has always been to “neither confirm nor deny the existence of nuclear weapons”. They literally refuse to comment on them. Which is just another way of saying “yes, we definitely have some that we don’t want you to know about”

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    Daniel

    Friday, December 17, 2010 at 3:18 PM

    Its a nuclear research centre.

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      olearymo

      Friday, December 17, 2010 at 9:49 PM

      y’know, researching… how to make nukes.

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