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Israel shoots down Iranian drone with Patriot missile

Sep 21, 2017 6:42 am By Robert Spencer

“The IDF’s identification of the drone as Iranian-made resonates with President Donald Trump’s criticism of Iran as a sponsor of terrorism during his Tuesday address of the United Nations General Assembly in New York City.”

Indeed so, even as Iranian leaders respond furiously to the truth being told about them.

“Israel Shoots Down Iranian Drone With Patriot Missile,” by Petr Svab, Epoch Times, September 20, 2017:

The Israeli military downed a drone it said belonged to the Hezbollah terrorist group that was about to violate Israeli airspace.

The drone (an unmanned aerial vehicle) was shot down at about 1:30 p.m. on Tuesday, Sept. 19, by a single Patriot missile, stated the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) in a release.

The drone, Iranian-made and operated by Hezbollah, flew a reconnaissance mission from Damascus Military Airport to the Golan Heights along the Israel-Syria border, according to IDF intelligence.

“When it [the drone] was observed crossing the Bravo Line into the demilitarized zone between Israel and Syria, the IDF decided to intercept it,” IDF stated.

The military also scrambled fighter jets to the area, but didn’t need to use them, The Times of Israel reported.

“Our message is that the IDF will not allow any violation of Israeli sovereignty,” says IDF Spokesperson Lt. Col. Jonathan Conricus, “and we will not allow Iranian forces, Hezbollah, Islamic Jihad, or Shiite militias of any kind to approach Israel’s borders. We will defend our borders, and if any such attempts to violate our sovereignty will be made, we will respond swiftly.”

The IDF’s identification of the drone as Iranian-made resonates with President Donald Trump’s criticism of Iran as a sponsor of terrorism during his Tuesday address of the United Nations General Assembly in New York City.

“It is far past time for the nations of the world to confront another reckless regime. One that speaks openly of mass murder, vowing death to America, destruction to Israel, and ruin for many leaders and nations in this room,” Trump said. “The Iranian government masks a corrupt dictatorship behind the false guise of a democracy. It has turned a wealthy country with a rich history and culture into an economically depleted rogue state whose chief exports are violence, bloodshed, and chaos. The longest suffering victims of Iran’s leaders are in fact its own people. Rather than use its resources to improve Iranian lives, its oil profits go to fund Hezbollah and other terrorists that kill innocent muslims [sic] and attack their peaceful Arab and Israeli neighbors.”…

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  1. mortimer says

    Sep 21, 2017 at 7:54 am

    Iran is a religious cult in charge of an entire country.

  2. The Rationalvoice says

    Sep 21, 2017 at 8:01 am

    What puzzles me is Israel can shoot down potential aggressors over its territory but Japan/USA seems unable or unwilling to shoot N.Korean missiles over Japanese airspace.I was told the missiles fly too high to be caught.Well this is even more worrying as what is to stop them releasing a nuclear device on Japan or the USA apart from writing their own suicide note.??
    As China is unwilling to reign in their insane America/Russia must do so and we certainly can’t negotiate with lunatics like that.
    I read a report that a defector from North Korea has said that the regime has killed 11 musicians by putting them in a large artillery piece and firing it.
    Now I hate rap music but that would be extreme even for rap “musicians” !!
    Seriously though we have a rival to Daesch/ISiS in terms of sadistic,lunatic violence and murder in this N.Korean regime and we are likely to discover a country of horrors to rival Nazi Germany when it is eventually overthrown.

    • Manual Paleologos says

      Sep 21, 2017 at 8:35 am

      Ballistic missiles follow a fixed course. In essence the missile is a rocket propelled bullet. Through most of its flight, it is simply ballistic. Once its course is plotted, you know exactly where it will be at every point in time. That’s how you intercept them. The NORK missiles were clearly on a trajectory to overfly Japan.

      The missile crossing was very high. This makes it a tricky intercept, one we aren’t practiced in. Or perhaps we have it down pat, and we don’t want to announce our capabilities. It’s a lot like when the Russians or Chinese buzz our warships. We don’t light them up with all our fire control radars, because we don’t want them to record our signals, and perhaps design countermeasures.

      It’s all a finely tuned game, at least on our side. I don’t have as much confidence in Rocket Boy.

    • Hari Singh says

      Sep 21, 2017 at 12:23 pm

      Missiles are harder to shoot down than slow moving drones. A Patriot missile seems a bit expensive to shoot down a drone. A SPAD WW 1 type plane could easily do the job.
      As China and Russia have allowed North Korea to disrupt the nuclear parity in East Asia, its time for the USA to re-establish nuclear parity by offering South Korea, Taiwan and Japan nuclear weapons. This prospect would awaken the Chinese to their folly of helping North Korea develop ICBM’s and a nuclear bomb

      • Kepha says

        Sep 21, 2017 at 2:45 pm

        Much as I am pro-Taiwan (I loudly believe they deserve international recognition, whether they call themselves the rump of Dr. Sun’s Republic of China, Taiwan, Great Liuqiu, Dong Ning, or even Bob), helping Taiwan get nuclear capability would provoke war with Communist China. This would be a losing proposition all around.

        But, to get back to the topic, Mazel Tov, Israel!

    • gravenimage says

      Sep 22, 2017 at 12:34 am

      A missile is not a drone.

    • paul says

      Sep 22, 2017 at 11:56 am

      get the Israelis to help Japan. Of course they can shoot them down, or better, return fire

  3. Baucent says

    Sep 21, 2017 at 8:08 am

    The Iranian drone industry clearly benefited much from the CIA losing one of theirs a few years ago, or should we say allowing it to be hacked and flown back to Iran. And this is the fall out, US technology now being used against Israel. Interestingly the Israelis chose to bring it down with the Patriot rather than let the air force deal with it. I suspect there was some valuable lessons learnt from that.

    • Sarah says

      Sep 21, 2017 at 8:11 am

      Valuable lessons indeed.

      Don’t piss off the Israelis. These idiot Muslims are all bluster, ultimately. The Israelis are not someone I would want to provoke.

      • Alexander says

        Sep 21, 2017 at 12:44 pm

        Indeed.

    • Manual Paleologos says

      Sep 21, 2017 at 8:37 am

      One of those lessons may be, “Send over a $10,000 drone, and they’ll spend a million bucks shooting it down.

      • Sarah says

        Sep 21, 2017 at 9:06 am

        Eh – I guess its all relative on an economic scale.

        Iran has a GDP annually of around US400 billion. Israel is around US320 billion.

        Then it gets interesting, when you drill down further…

        The GDP per capita for Israel is around US37k per person annually.
        The GDP per capita for Iran is around US4k per person annually.

        Israel has around 8 and a half million inhabitants. Iran has around 80 million.

        Now it starts to look really skewed. Especially when you factor in that Iran gets by, by flogging off their natural resources. Israel has to create and innovate to export.

        So if you look at it like that – the 10k drone was as expensive to the Iranians as the missile was to the Israelis.

        And the Israelis have the technological capability to not only manufacture more, but how to create and innovate on more and better weaponry.

        The Iranians need all the help they can get just to have what they currently have. That drone – they wouldn’t have even built it.It would’ve been purchased from somewhere else. The Israeli’s could probably work out how to attach a mini nuke to one, within 3 months, if they had a real need for it.

        Despite all that resource cash, despite that big population – Iran is just yet another Islamic nation – teeming with uneducated, mindless droids.

        • Mike says

          Sep 21, 2017 at 9:21 am

          Actually, Iran is probably the most scientifically sophisticated Muslim-style country.

          A lot of their pre-Islamic culture survives.

          Which actually makes them more dangerous.

        • Westman says

          Sep 21, 2017 at 12:33 pm

          Mike’s comment is accurate. Iran is not Arab or illiterate – even though it has adopted much of the Arab culture under Islam.

          Iran is unique, as a Muslim country, in the education of women and the employment of them. This makes Iran both more sophisticated than other Muslim nations and more likely to have a simmering sedition waiting for an opportunity to throw off the Mullahs. Iran is a theocratic dictatorship.

          Here are some literacy rates:

          Pakistan 56%
          Afghanistan 38%
          Morocco 72%
          Iraq 80%
          Iran 87%
          SA 95%

          The poorest Muslim countries can be identified readily by the difference in literacy between the sexes. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_literacy_rate

        • Joe says

          Sep 22, 2017 at 5:21 am

          Patriot missiles are only from the USA. I don’t know what drone was being used, but they might be able to be destroyed with a machine gun if it is low enough. Certainly an aircraft could do it.

          It is probably not smart to shoot drones with Patriot missiles unless the target practice is needed.

  4. Sarah says

    Sep 21, 2017 at 8:09 am

    Thanks Obama. While you’re out, running around taking holidays with celebrities with your nauseating wife, greedily clawing at the millions you want – taking a leaf out of the Clinton playbook – the rest of the world is a thin inch from catastrophe.

    There is blood on your feral hands. Own it. You deserve a black-site jail cell for what you’ve done.

    • Infidel says

      Sep 21, 2017 at 11:45 am

      Obama has betrayed the Americans many times over… the same Americans who voted him to the highest office of their land NOT ONCE BUT TWICE!! for goodness sake!!!

  5. Paul N Silas says

    Sep 21, 2017 at 8:12 am

    Nice shoot’n IDF!

    • gravenimage says

      Sep 22, 2017 at 12:35 am

      +1

  6. Caecus says

    Sep 21, 2017 at 8:37 am

    The only issue is that a Patriot costs over 2 million dollars. I’ll let you guess what an Iranian drone might be worth.

  7. Ren says

    Sep 21, 2017 at 10:19 am

    Bomb the bastards, Israel ! Well done !

  8. Walter Sieruk says

    Sep 21, 2017 at 11:10 am

    The title of the above article reads ,in part, “Israel shoots down Iranian drone…” Indeed the authorities and officials of State of Israel do have every right to shoot down that spy drone that was about to violent and invaded Israeli airspace. For the spy drone was supplied to Iran’s stooge terror group ,Hezbollah. That spy drone was used,no doubt , with sinister and insidious intentions to scheme future jihad violence.
    As for the jihad -minded Muslims in power Iran ,hating the Jewish people with a vicious and malice -filled hate and likewise hate the Jewish state of Israel is what the mullahs and ayatollahs as well as other malicious Muslim in control of that tyrannical Islamic regime of Iran do best.

    Furthermore, those mullahs and ayatollahs in Iran with their falsehoods and deceptions of the many false doctrines of Islam in which they brainwash the Iranian people in believing is something that is both sad and tragic. Those ayatollahs and mullahs are, no doubt, just as deluded as the people who they thoroughly indoctrinate with false teachings of Islam. Of such demonic deception by false teachers who are also deluded such men a have been predicted in the Bible. For in the Bible it’s written that “Evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse deceiving and being deceived.” Second Timothy 3:13. [K.J.V.] All those mullahs and ayatollahs are, according to the doctrines of the Bible, Isaiah 8:20. false religious teachers .Meaning false teacher s who teach and indoctrinate the false doctrines of the false religion of Islam into the hearts and minds of others . Such false teachers are described in the Bible ,in Second Peter 2:1. “There were false prophets also among the people, even as there shall be false teachers among you, who privately shall bring in damnable heresies, even denying the Lord that bought them, and bring upon themselves swift destruction.”
    Therefore, to reply to the many different claims made by the imams and mullahs as well as the other apologists for Islam there is the Christian internet site. It’s http://www.answering-islam.org
    In addition, it should be make clear that in the context and meaning of the above Bible verse Second Peter 2:1. The word “destruction” does not mean “loss of being but loss of well-being ,as the destruction of well- being . That is “going to ruin” by ending up and a terrible place of awful suffering which the Bible call hell, Luke 16:19-31.

    • R Russell says

      Sep 21, 2017 at 12:19 pm

      The nations prophesied to make an alliance against Israel at the end of time are at this time coming into that alliance. The Mahdi with a character very similar to that of the antichrist is thought by Islam to come to kill any Jews and Christians who have escaped the genocide necessary for his coming. Life is going to get worse. However Jesus has told us he will return. The Jews will recognise him as their Messiah and the seemingly imminent destruction of Israel will be stopped.
      The trouble is that so many no longer belief the Bible, in spite of it never having been proved wrong, that they are going to be unprepared for what the future holds. It wont be very pleasant, but those who have Jesus as Saviour, Lord, Friend etc have an excellent hope. More info from the New Testament.

      • Carpediadem says

        Sep 22, 2017 at 12:31 am

        Jews will never take Jesus as their Messiah. Live with it.

  9. TopDrifter says

    Sep 21, 2017 at 11:43 am

    It wouldn’t surprise me if Netanyahu don’t go ahead “full bull” and nuke the shit out of Iran. There is no measure of negotiations that will convince Iran to live in harmony with the state of Israel. Iran want to destroy the “Little Satan” (Israel) and the “Big Satan” (USA). What’s to figure out there? It’s time to level that part of the desert into a glass bowl and get rid of the imposing threat.

    • Infidel says

      Sep 21, 2017 at 12:00 pm

      AND THE SOONER THEY DO IT THE BETTER.. THE MORE THEY DELAY THE CANCER WILL JUST BECOME A GIANT MALEVOLENT TUMOR.

  10. Dan says

    Sep 21, 2017 at 12:06 pm

    If I were Netanyahu, about now I’d be saying to Hezbollah and the Palest-whinians, if a fly so much as shits on my windshield, we’re blaming all o’ y’all.

  11. Peacemaker says

    Sep 21, 2017 at 12:13 pm

    Shoot em’ all. The way to counter Jihad and Islam is don’t let them smell your weakness.

  12. mariam rove says

    Sep 21, 2017 at 12:46 pm

    Very good. M

  13. Guest says

    Sep 21, 2017 at 1:31 pm

    Well done, Isreal

    • Logically-speaking says

      Sep 22, 2017 at 10:16 pm

      Israel is about to bomb the air field where the drone took off.

  14. gravenimage says

    Sep 22, 2017 at 12:32 am

    Israel shoots down Iranian drone with Patriot missile
    …………………

    Very disturbing from Iran–but I’m glad Israel shot this thing down.

  15. Dustin Koellhoffer says

    Sep 22, 2017 at 12:19 pm

    Holy crap! Like using a shotgun to kill a fly. What’s wrong with Stingers?

    • Logically-speaking says

      Sep 22, 2017 at 10:19 pm

      It is just testing the effectiveness of the patriot.

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