Illustrative photo of two Israeli F-15I 'Ra'am' fighter jets during maneuvers. (photo credit: CC BY-TSgt Kevin J. Gruenwald/USA/Wikimedia)
Air Force Jets Scramble Over Tel Aviv In False Alarm -- Times of Israel
Flock of birds trigger aerial defense system; Hezbollah has twice tried to penetrate Israeli airspace with drones in the past 12 months
Residents of Tel Aviv and surrounding towns witnessed loud, low-flying maneuvers by Israel Air Force jets on Saturday morning when the planes scrambled to intercept what was initially believed to be an intrusion by enemy aircraft into Israel’s airspace.
The intruder, which turned out to be a flock of birds, was detected inside Israeli airspace shortly before 10 a.m. The surprise intrusion triggered alarms in Israel’s aerial detection systems, leading the Air Force to scramble fighters to intercept.
The slow-moving, weak radar signal given off by the birds led to concern among defense officials that the object might be a small unmanned drone.
The IDF has intercepted such drones twice in the past 12 months, including in October 2012 and last April, when the IDF shot down a drone five miles off the coast of Haifa that the army said was collecting intelligence for the Lebanese terror group Hezbollah.
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My Comment: When I read stories like this one .... it is obvious that with war and conflict happening throughout the region .... everyone's military is on a hair-trigger alert.
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