The Israeli-manufactured Elbit Systems Hermes 450 aircraft took off from North Dakota's Hillsboro airport to start a summer-long project that will take pictures of farmland in the fertile Red River Valley. The test is meant to determine whether the large drone is more efficient than other, smaller drones to capture imagery of agricultural land.

A drone launched by Hamas terrorists, apparently as part of an effort to find new ways to observe and attack Israel, crashed on the Israeli side of the Gaza border fence.