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TEL AVIV, Israel - The Israeli military is using a high-flying, high-tech balloon to spot Palestinian rocket launchers in Gaza, an army publication reported.
The balloon has been flying several hundred yards over the main army command post just outside the Gaza Strip for the past month, according to the current edition of Bamahane.
The balloon is equipped with sophisticated cameras and transmitters and it relays pictures of a wide area back to the base. The soldiers' weekly said each balloon system, developed by the Israeli military research company, costs about $2-million.
The weekly said the balloon flying over the command post is a prototype and the military hopes to have 10 such balloons in the air within a year.