(Haaretz) Gili Cohen - An expert on drones has expressed concern over Israel's inability to shoot down an unmanned aerial vehicle that penetrated the country's airspace on Sunday and warned that Israel should expect more drones in the future. The drone entered Israeli airspace over the central Golan Heights on Sunday afternoon. The air force unsuccessfully tried to intercept it three times, firing two Patriot missiles from a battery located in the north, and then scrambling fighter jets to shoot it down with an air-to-air missile. "Hermetic defense does not exist, and various devices could very well penetrate [Israeli airspace]," said Tal Inbar, head of the Space and UAV Research Center at the Fisher Institute for Air and Space Strategic Studies. "It is not easy to shoot down drones because of their size, speed and the materials they are made from, which make detection difficult," he added.
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