Germany May Receive Israeli Heron-TP UAVs without Weapons Our Bureau 2252 IAI Heron TP UAV for Germany The five advanced Heron-TP unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) that Germany is leasing from Israel may come unarmed. On December 15, the Social Democratic Party of Germany opposed buying weapons for the drones. A vote in the German parliament regarding the decision to buy weapons has been postponed with no new date set. “The SDP has decided to oppose arming Bundeswehr’s Heron-TP UAVs for the time being,” the party’s defense policy spokesman Fritz Felgentreu, considered one of the biggest supporters of the move to arm the UAVs, tweeted the same night.