Armed drones crisscross Mideast skies, bringing havoc and a new threat to US
WASHINGTON â The masked fighters in camouflage uniforms trudge across the dunes of Gaza, lugging two gray drones with wooden propellers and warheads. Loaded on metal launchers, the winged aircraft shoot into the sky, headed off to strike Israel.
The propaganda video, made public this month by Hamas in the midst of the worst fighting with Israel in years, was meant to cast the militant group as a formidable fighting force, capable of overcoming its foe's advanced military with its own homemade technology.
But the video also served to highlight the proliferation of military drones crisscrossing the region's skies in unprecedented numbers. They target oil facilities, militant hideouts, Israeli and Palestinian territory and even U.S. bases in the region.
Some are shot down, but they are cheap to build and so many are in the air that some reach their targets,
