On a pleasant winter’s day last week, a group of onlookers gathered around a screen in the Lachish area. They watched as a picture was received from a tiny aircraft circling above them. The plane was being operated from the ground via a joystick and myriad buttons, and the video was updating in real time. When something of interest was found, the aircraft operator magnified the image to view the details clearly.
IDF boots on the ground get better eye in the sky
The Sky Rider, a 7-kilogram, UAV system that cost NIS 200 million to develop, is intended to aid a battalion on the ground by providing aerial intelligence images in real time.
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