Another Israeli drone reportedly crashed. In Iraq.

August 28, 2014 Drones, Iraq, Troubled Areas
David Cenciotti

An Israeli unmanned aerial vehicle has just crashed in the vicinity of Baghdad Airport.

According to the FARS News Agency, an Israeli Hermes drone crashed near Baghdad airport on Aug. 27.

It is still not clear whether the UAV was shot down or crashed (for unknown reasons) but, if confirmed, the loss would be the second in less than three days, after another drone, yet to be identified, was allegedly shot down on its way to Natanz nuclear enrichment facility, in the Central parts of Iran.

Even if the FNA has published the image on a Hermes 900 UAV (a High Altitude Long Endurance UAV – with capabilities superior to those of the Hermes 450 – that has had its baptmism of fire during Operation Protective Edge in Gaza) the model involved in the incident is still unknown.

Image credit: Elbit

 

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David Cenciotti is a journalist based in Rome, Italy. He is the Founder and Editor of “The Aviationist”, one of the world’s most famous and read military aviation blogs. Since 1996, he has written for major worldwide magazines, including Air Forces Monthly, Combat Aircraft, and many others, covering aviation, defense, war, industry, intelligence, crime and cyberwar. He has reported from the U.S., Europe, Australia and Syria, and flown several combat planes with different air forces. He is a former 2nd Lt. of the Italian Air Force, a private pilot and a graduate in Computer Engineering. He has written five books and contributed to many more ones.

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  1. The question is what in the world was the Israeli drone doing in Iraq? And who mandated the Israeli drones flight in Iran? All these events in sensitive times in the backdrop of the Gaza War, Iranian Nuclear negotiations and Iraqi IS crises. Israel should stop acting as the naughty boy of the region because if retaliation takes places then Bibi will be quick to remind the world that Israel is very sensitive about its security because the total flight time to enter and leave Israel is 2 to 3.

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