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| The UAV Incursion: Are Gas Rigs The Next Target? |
| 2012-10-10 |
| The flight of the Iranian UAV launched by Hezbollah has turned the issue of defending gas reserves in the Mediterranean Sea into a very pressing issue, say Israeli experts. Thus far, it appears that the primary threat to drilling rigs and future production rigs might come from the sea, in the form of explosive boats or a boat carrying armed terrorists. Now, according to the experts, Hezbollah's success in flying a UAV along Israel's coast and then into the country's airspace completely changes things. Some of the experts hold the opinion that the entire operation was mostly intended to examine the ability for early detection of UAVs. This was revealed to be lacking, since the UAV entered Israel's airspace and flew within it for approximately half an hour. In the past, Hassan Nasrallah has voiced threats directed at Israel's gas reserves in the Mediterranean Sea. It seems that the UAVs he received from Iran were not intended for intelligence purposes, since he could obtain what he received from this UAV through Google Earth. One of the experts said that Hezbollah has no need for tactical intelligence, since its main weapons are rockets, which are mostly statistic weapons that do not require real-time intelligence information of the kind supplied by advanced UAVs. According to the expert, the need for UAVs is for the purpose of harassing and attacking a large target such as a drilling or production rig. The new situation will required the diversion of many additional measures towards protecting the gas reserves in Israel's economic waters. It seems that the initial reinforcement will be in the detection system, which will have to be better adapted for improved detection of targets with a small radar signature. According to the experts, this refers to both radars as well as other sensors that can assist in early detection. |
| Posted by:Glinesh Craling7938 |
| #5 D *** NG IT, so thats why I can't buy or find an RC anymore - they're all in the Middle East! |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2012-10-10 19:37 |
| #4 no offense to Israel - but the publicity about one unfriendly UAV coming over the border is ridiculous. How many UAV's have been sent into Iran .. by you know who?? Were all of those UAV's simply intel-gathering missions, or were some of them armed? Good question :-) |
| Posted by: Raider 2012-10-10 13:52 |
| #3 Because the power of an electronic signal drops off as the square of the distance, a jammer is particularly effective in a local area no matter what the power of the transmitter (within reason). The real problem is defending static targets like off-shore drilling platforms from rockets or the anti-ship missiles the Hezbies shot at the Israeli navy last time. Again, not that hard, just annoying. |
| Posted by: rammer 2012-10-10 12:20 |
| #2 Will a jammer on the platform have a greater range than the 'go autonomous' command link? |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2012-10-10 11:20 |
| #1 The UAV threat is one that Israel can handle. It complicates matters a bit but it's not like Israel is, you know, Lebanon... |
| Posted by: Steve White 2012-10-10 09:56 |