Israel is one of the world's foremost users of drone technology on the battlefield, with remote-control pickups, boats and backpack drones at its disposal.
The IDF has been using the technology since at least the mid-2000s, mostly to conduct patrols along its border with Gaza.
While many of the vehicles are unarmed, they can also be equipped with machine guns and missiles which can be fired remotely.
Israel is one of the world's foremost users of drone technology on the battlefield, with remote-control pickups, boats and backpack drones at its disposal.
As a result, Israel is one of the world's largest exporters of drone technology, selling unmanned vehicles worth a total of $4.6billion in 2013, mostly to Asia and Europe.
MailOnline took a look at the Israeli arsenal after Iran claimed a satellite-controlled gun mounted on a pickup truck was used to take out Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, their top nuclear scientist, and pointed the finger of blame at Israel...
1. Machine-gun pickup truck
The IDF showed off this technology in 2016, when it was fitted into Ford F-350 pickup trucks that were designed to conduct border patrols.
The trucks, dubbed Border Protector Unmanned Ground Vehicles, are equipped with an array of sensors and cameras that allowed people to drive them remotely.
The IDF unveiled Ford F350 pickup trucks that could be controlled remotely in 2016, saying they would soon be outfitted to carry machine guns that could be fired remotely
At the time they were unveiled the trucks were unarmed, but the IDF said it was hoping to arm the vehicles some time in early 2017.
'We will get a machine gun on the vehicle that will be operated from a control room,' an IDF official told Fox News at the time.
The IDF said the vehicles have been operational since 2015, and would later incorporate driverless technology.
2. Remote-control boat
The Protector boat was developed in Israel by Rafael Advanced Defense Systems and put into service around 2005.
Unmanned and unarmed, the boat was initially used to conduct routine surveillance missions without putting crews at risk.
The Rafael Protector remote-control boat entered service around 2008, and was later retrofitted to be able to fire missiles
Rafael later adapted the boats to fire rockets, the Times of Israel reported, with the Navy carrying out successful test-fires of the weapons in 2018.
Some of the navy’s unmanned ships come equipped with machine guns and water cannons, which are controlled remotely.
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