The Sky Dew system detects and gives warning of aerial threats emanating from over the northern border.
The IDF confirmed Hezbollah’s claim to have damaged a sensitive military site in the north and is currently assessing the harm done.
Two explosive UAVs penetrated Israeli airspace Wednesday, heading for an air defense facility near the Golani Junction in the Lower Galilee.
One was shot down, the IDF said, while the other hit the location of the army’s new Sky Dew system, which operates a radar-filled reconnaissance blimp.
It was the first time the Iranian proxy managed to hit anything of consequence so deep into Israel.
According to JNS, the aircraft was impaired and IDF personnel are “attempting to determine whether the balloon’s sensors were also damaged.”
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