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Patriot missiles fired at aircraft in Golan Heights
Ahiya Raved, Yoav Zitun & Reuters
Published: 17.07.16, 17:29
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1. Ma ze KOL HAKOVODE,as result is The drone returned to Syria?
Bob ,   USSR   (07.17.16)
2. why are you using patriots?
jeff   (07.17.16)
idf should be using iron dome since american patriots are not accurate and do n ot compare. like in 91, they had a 90% failure rate-apparently the syrian drone was not shot down.

bibi has no clue, sits there, has no feel for war. commando??? forget about it-other than lifting equipment, he had zero instincts for attack and what is needed. i do not understand why the idf did not note that he was unfit to ever have been a soldier. he knows how to give a speech and do some politics, other than that he is like herzog- a born coward
3. How can they miss a drone?
Moshe ,   Rehovot   (07.18.16)
How can TWO missiles travelling greater than the speed of sound fail to take down a drone traveling at sub-sonic speeds? As usual, there's something we are not being told.
4. A Failure?
Yaakov ,   Beer Sheva   (07.18.16)
The way I read it, the anti-drone missiles both missed their target. Is this not a failure? Wake up Israel, They still want to kill us all.
5. So the Patriot Missile was a $3m pop bottle rocket?
Yitzi ,   Bet Shemesh   (07.18.16)
So the Patriot Missile was a $3m pop bottle rocket? So much for American military aid which forces us to buy their technology with it rather than build our own better technology.
6. To Jeff @ # 2
Philip ,   Northern Israel   (07.18.16)
'Sabena' paints a vivid picture of the 1972 plane hijacking and storming of the plane by Israeli commandos - including Benjamin Netanyahu.

I am not a Bibi fan, but I do not doubt his courage. Did you ever take part in such an operation ?
7. Ridiculous decision
rom ,   Israel   (07.18.16)
Whoever decided to try to intercept and destroy a drone using a Patriot missile needs their heads read. The Patriot was not designed to destroy such small objects as a drone.

Would you use a 20kg sledgehammer to kill a fly?

Of course not.
8. Ridicule is more lethal than the Patriot.
Gabe ,   Canada   (07.18.16)
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