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The ability to hover at the relatively high altitudes would make the UAV more effective for missions in mountainous areas and help keep it out of range of some ground-based air defense weapons, Boeing said.

But rather than carry air-to-ground missiles, this hunter-killer UAV is designed to be the weapon itself by self-destructing into its targets. These are primarily intended to knock out air defenses

Lebanese air defense fires at Israeli UAV . On Saturday, an Israeli UAV that flew into south Lebanon was fired upon by the local air defenses.

Would conduct air-to-air and air-to-ground missions, including suppression of enemy air defenses, serve as ISR aircraft.

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