Multiple military-missile-intelligence shield for Israel’s gas fields
DEBKAfile Special Report
The Israeli Navy Wednesday, Sept. 2, staged a defensive exercise, which centered on the elite Shayetet 13 unit practicing the silent, smooth ejection of terrorists who had “captured the Yam Tethys Mediterranean gas field, off Ashkelon. The star of the show was the upgraded Barak-8 multipurpose seaborne defense missile, reported capable of tackling the Russian Yakhont. But the key to defense, say DEBKAfile’s military experts, is intelligence – strategic and tactical – for early warning of enemy plans of attack and recording its actions in real time - whether for sabotage or missile or drone strike. One such threat comes from the Yakhont, another the Iranian Ababil drone, as new rockets Tehran is supplying to Hizballah and Hamas.