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Ein Shemer Airfield ( ) is an Israeli military airfield and base in northern Israel , located approximately 6 km east of Hadera .1Before 1948 it was operated by the British Royal Air Force (RAF) as RAF Ein Shemer. During this time, "RAF Ein Shemer was the largest military airfield in the country" and hosted "seven ..RAF squadrons and 1,500 RAF personnel." Between the autumn of 1943 and June 1945, it was home to 78 Operational Training Unit training general reconnaissance crews, particularly using ASV radar and the Leigh light. It served as the workplace for as many as 600, mainly Arab, workers. This made it, in the opinion of its Commanding Officer, ‘the largest camp of its sort for civilian labour in the Middle East’. Since 2002 the base houses a complete Arrow 2 Theater Anti Ballistic Missile battery which includes around 150-200 Arrow 2 Block 4 missiles, several launchers, the Great Pine Radar (Green Pine 2 Radar) with a 1000 kilometer range and the Yellow Citron & Brown Nut elements of the system. In 2008 and again in 2012, the Israeli government proposed closing down Sde Dov and Herzlia airports and relocating their general aviation and civilian flight training activities to an expanded Ein Shemer airfield. Nearby residents however expressed strong opposition to the plan. In June 2019 the National Infrastructure Planning Committee voted to approve the plan but the local and regional municipalities vowed to continue opposing it. The airfield is also the home of a control station for the IAI Heron UAV . A Forgotten Case of Jewish and Arab Work in a British Army Camp in Palestine during the Second World War" . IAI's Heron UAV becomes first in world to land at international airport2
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Ein Shemer Airfield is an Israeli army airport in northern Israel . Before 1948 it was operated by the British Royal Air Force as RAF Ein Shemer . Since 2002 the base houses a complete Arrow 2 Tactical Anti Ballistic Missile battery which includes around 150-200 Arrow 2 Block 4 missiles, several launchers, the Great Pine Radar (Green Pine 2 Radar) with a 1000 kilometer range and the Yellow Citron & Brown Nut elements of the system.
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Ein Shemer Airport is an Israeli army airport in northern Israel , located approximately 6 km east of Hadera . Before 1948 it was operated by the British Royal Air Force as RAF Ein Shemer . Since 2002 the base houses a complete Arrow 2 Theater Anti Ballistic Missile battery which includes around 150-200 Arrow 2 Block 4 missiles, several launchers, the Great Pine Radar (Green Pine 2 Radar) with a 1000 kilometer range and the Yellow Citron & Brown Nut elements of the system. In 2008 and again in 2012, the Israeli government proposed closing down Sde Dov and Herzlia airports and relocating their general aviation activities to an expanded Ein Shemer airfield.Nearby residents however expressed strong opposition to the plan.A final decision on the matter has not been made yet.
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The Ein Shemer Airfield ( ) is an Israeli military airfield and base in northern Israel , located approximately 6 km east of Hadera . Before 1948 it was operated by the British Royal Air Force as RAF Ein Shemer . Since 2002 the base houses a complete Arrow 2 Theater Anti Ballistic Missile battery which includes around 150-200 Arrow 2 Block 4 missiles, several launchers, the Great Pine Radar (Green Pine 2 Radar) with a 1000 kilometer range and the Yellow Citron & Brown Nut elements of the system. In 2008 and again in 2012, the Israeli government proposed closing down Sde Dov and Herzlia airports and relocating their general aviation and civilian flight training activities to an expanded Ein Shemer airfield. Nearby residents however expressed strong opposition to the plan.
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Air base in Israel Aerial view of the airfield in 2020 with the Arrow missile sites to the right and the radar above Ein Shemer Airfield ( Hebrew : מחנה עין שמר , English: Shemer's Source) is an Israeli Air Force (IAF) base in northern Israel , located approximately 6 km east of Hadera in the Haifa District , named after the nearby kibbutz Ein Shemer .It houses no fighter jets or helicopters but UAVs for testing and a defense missile battery with long-range radar.
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israeli army airport in northern israel
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israeli air force
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