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Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Israel in first NATO tactical exercises
2006-06-26
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The plane dipped in low over the line of warships as they patrolled the Black Sea off the coast of Romania. Picked up by the radar of the INS Eilat, the unidentified aircraft began to make its approach, setting off alarms warning of the possibility of a kamikaze pilot on his way to a suicide attack.

This exercise and others are what kept the sailors of the Sa'ar 5-class missile ship busy on Sunday as it participated for the first time in Israeli history in a tactical NATO exercise on the Black Sea.

The airplane in this case was an IAF helicopter accompanying the Eilat and was posing as a suicide kamikaze jet in an exercise meant to drill how the warships respond to this 9/11-like threat.
Posted by:lotp

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