The first Israeli Air Force operational unmanned aerial vehicle mission took place 44 years ago on Sept. 22, 1971.
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Photo: Israeli Air Force
A Ryan Firebee that arrived in the country a few weeks earlier was tasked with photographing Egyptian surface-to-air missile batteries near the Suez canal after a Boeing 377 Stratocruiser by a missile on Sept. 17, 1971.