n the past, the two organisations have tried to use the sea to penetrate Israel's borders to carry out terror attacks. Since Israel has discovered huge reservoirs of gas in the Mediterranean, the gas pumping rigs have become a potential target for these two organisations. An exclusive economic zone (EEZ) is a sea zone prescribed by the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNC-LOS) over which a state has special rights regarding the exploration and use of marine resources, including energy production from water and wind. It stretches a distance of 200 nautical miles (nmi) out from the baseline of the coastal state. To protect the natural resources in the EEZ, countries need an almost constant presence in the open seas. This threat has accelerated the development of advanced unmanned surface vehicle (USV) by some Israeli defence industries.
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