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The Israelis broke ground on the UAV front by using them in Lebanon War to knock out the Syrian air missle defense system. It changed the course of warfare.

what I saw documented was that the IDF wanted to find out Syrian SA-5 locations ... they sent in the UAV's for a closer look to recon the terrain before the fight began ...

the Syrians, having had their tails whipped pretty handily by IDF Wild Weasel aircraft, freaked out when the UAV's appeared on their radar screens and launched ... wasting several SAM's on UAV's ... when the real Wild Weasels showed up, they faced a lot few SAM's ...

our own UAV didn't fare as well against an Iraqi MiG-25 ... they lauched for the heck of it but it wasn't really set up to dogfight ... however, if it had been carrying AIM-9's, they might have had a better chance. I think (IIRC) they shot at the MiG-25 with a Hellfire which, of course, isn't it's proper mission ...