Hamas unveils new UAV

Mohammed Najib, Ramallah and Jeremy Binnie, London - IHS Jane's Defence Weekly

15 July 2014

 

 

The Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of Hamas, announced on 14 July that it has a self-produced unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) called the Ababil 1.
It said it had developed three different models: the A1A for reconnaissance missions; A1B for offensive missions; and A1C for attacking suicide missions, in which the UAV is used as a loitering munition.
The announcement was accompanied by the release of a video showing what the al-Qassam Brigades said was an A1B in flight.
The aircraft has a boxy fuselage with a high-wing, twin-boom, pusher configuration and fixed, wheeled under-carriage. It carried what appeared to be two improvised rockets under each wing. While it did not appear to be fitted with an electro-optical turret, it had a camera fixed under each boom to film what is in front of the UAV.

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Aid Ship Mariam to Sail on Sunday 

August 20, 2010
By Ali Yenidunya

Will Mariam Sail to Gaza?: As Palestine Today reported Thursday that an aid ship bound for the Gaza Strip had departed from Algeria, the organizers of the Lebanese ship Mariam said that they plan to set sail from Lebanon on Sunday.

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