IAF scrambles to defend nuclear plant, shoots down balloon-UAV?
 

New type of Terrorist UAV? A motorized balloon...

http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomac...actor-1.330959

It wouldn't be the first time a terrorist UAV flew a recce over Israel.

Trying what the japanese did with baloons and bombs in the second world war?

An unmanned motorized balloon? That's...new...wonder what whoever built it was trying to achieve...

To see what kind of defenses are around a plant that makes/made nuclear bombs. :o

Probably exactly what it did achieve. A test of reaction times and defences. :hmmm:

I can't see how something like this would tell anyone anything useful, the presence of SAM sites and air cover there is well known for decades. The only thing it could've told him is whether they would bother shooting down something like a motorized balloon, and I could've guessed the answer to that very easily.

Alternatively it could be to see how much effort Israel puts into defending from that UAV, and whether they can be distracted by it enough to sneak something else in. A bit of a random way to go about it, but that's lateral warfare these days.

Hmm, I suppose you could be right. These sort of people don't usually make any sense, whoever they are.

Maybe to see how long it would take the IAF to scramble and intercept in case they wanted to try an airborne attack.

Edit: Crazy stuff like this reminds me of the time a Tango para-glided in to Israel to kill an IDF soldier.

Get out of here, paraglide? Well, I suppose its a form of LALO. :hmmm: Lateral warfare, damn, warfare is just getting more and more complicated. :dead:

Found it:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Night_of_the_Gliders

Or it could be some kid's science project..... a RC "airship" wouldnt be hard to build.

Pictured the kids:
http://img87.imageshack.us/img87/8233/childabuse11.jpg

There was not some little boy in the balloon was there?

Perhaps a camera on board or some poor high school science projects experiment gone bad