(Ha'aretz) Gili Cohen - Israel is the world's largest exporter of unmanned aircraft, in terms of the number of systems sold, according to a study by the business consulting firm Frost & Sullivan. Over the last eight years Israel has exported $4.6 billion worth of unmanned aerial vehicles. Over half of Israel's UAV exports from 2005 through 2012 were to Europe, with a large number of aircraft supplied to Britain's Watchkeeper program, based on Elbit's Hermes 450 UAV. Drones were also sold to Germany, Poland, the Netherlands and Spain.
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