IDF ‘not familiar’ with reported anti-aircraft attack by Hamas

The army says it is “not familiar” with reports from earlier Tuesday about an SA-7 surface-to-air missile allegedly fired at an air force helicopter. The report, though, raises the issue of what Hamas and other terror groups possess in their arsenals of imported and self-made weapons.

The SA-7, which was reportedly first used in combat by Egyptian troops during the War of Attrition with Israel in 1969, is “a well-known and obsolete weapon,” says Tal Inbar of the Fisher Institute for Air and Space Strategic Studies.

Israeli aircraft are all equipped with the appropriate defensive systems and flight regulations that keep them out of range of the low-altitude, Soviet-made missile, he says, adding that there have been roughly 10 cases of SA-7 missiles fired from Gaza.

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