Israeli Firm Boasts That Its Tech Can Take Over A Hostile Drone

A drone used in Syria last year.Onur Coban/Anadolu Agency/AFP

Haaretz: New Tech Lets Israel Take Over Hostile Drones, Reuse Them Against Enemy

Over the weekend, the Israeli army said it acted in the Damascus area to foil a drone strike on northern Israel by an Iranian force

Anti-drone technology recently developed in Israel can seize control of enemy drones and land them anywhere. Taking control of the drones without causing them damage makes it possible to reuse them and extract any data that the drone collected prior to its interception.

"The system that we developed can detect hostile drones at a range of up to three and a half kilometers [about 2 miles] and take control of about 200 drones at the same time," Asaf Lebovitz, the product manager of Skylock, one of the Israeli companies that have developed the technology, told Haaretz.

Israel said it carried out an attack in Syria on Saturday to thwart a drone attack on northern Israel by the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps' elite Quds Force. The opposition Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported that two members of the Lebanese Hezbollah militia group and one Iranian were killed in the attack. The Israeli army said the Quds Force had been planning to launch a number of drones.

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