An Israeli officer said: All the drone munitions 'come down in free-fall, and can reach the speed of sound…no one will hear it, no one will see it coming.'
After more than two decades of secrecy, Israel in July went public with the existence of armed drones in its arsenal. In November, an Israeli general detailed the two corps – air force and artillery – that operate the systems in combat.
The former, the officer said, “is the heaviest drone that the IDF has, which can carry munitions, with an effective payload of around a ton”. All the drone munitions are Israeli-made, the officer said, and “come down in free-fall, and can reach the speed of sound”.
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