A German Navy warship participating in the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) has downed a drone off Lebanon’s coast, a military spokesman told dpa on Thursday.
The Ludwigshafen am Rhein corvette repelled an approaching drone at around 7 am (0400 GMT), said the spokesman for Germany’s armed forces, the Bundeswehr. The drone was reportedly brought down in the immediate vicinity of the warship around 30 kilometres north-west of the port of Naqoura, where UNIFIL is headquartered. The crew managed to recover the drone and is now examining it.
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