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Israel Freezes Drone-Maker’s License Amid Complaints That It Attacked Armenian Positions
TEL AVIV (A.W.)—The Israeli Ministry of Defense has frozen some Aeronautics Defense Systems licenses, preventing the firm from exporting its military drones to Azerbaijan.
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“The contract for supplying the drone totals $20 million over the next two years, according to Aeronautics.” In fact, Israeli aid totaled several billions of US dollars over the recent years. But somehow we don’t see much criticism on these pages of Israel’s arms supplies to Azerbaijan. Not to say that Israel is the US principal ally in the greater Middle East region.
That does not mean they cannot or will not sell the drones to third parties who will then sell it to azerbaijan. Israel is very clever with diverting the issue. The fact remains that the sale was made to azerbaijan irrespective as to who did what is secondary. The damage was done and all this for MONEY and the hurt it does to the civilians.
Azerbaijani deployed an Israeli-made Harop Drone, during the April, 2016, Karabakh War. The Israeli made drone, tipped with explosives, was used as a kamikaze aircraft, during the April 2016 war, and is credited with killing seven Armenians in a transport bus: “The drone slammed into a bus carrying Armenian volunteer soldiers and killed seven people, according to the Armenian defence ministry.”
The Washington Post, a neutral source, first reported the April, 2016, drone attack, with Azeri video footage, which showed it swoop down (in the fashion of Japanese Kamikazes), and explode after striking its ground based target. The bus itself wasn’t visible in the video footage.
Joseph Dempsey, a research analyst, concluded that it was indeed an Israeli Harop Drone, also called a loitering missile, because it can hover for six hours before striking its target. Azerbaijan was one of three countries known to import the Harop Drone, in April, 2016.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/04/08/suicide-drone-used-for-first-time-in-fighting-between-azerbaijan/