https://archive.ph/8BY5s#selection-555.0-555.68
The small drone hovered over the heads of Israeli soldiers gathered near a tank in the hills of southern Lebanon. Then it dived into the crowd and detonated an explosive, killing one and injuring five others. A military rescue helicopter landed at the chaotic scene, while soldiers hurriedly carried the injured off the battlefield.
But the attack from Hezbollah this past Sunday wasn’t done. A second drone filmed the scene from above before diving in and exploding. It missed the helicopter by a few yards.
“Wow, wow! Another drone! Wow! I can’t believe it!” shouted a soldier filming the scene.
Hezbollah, the Lebanese militant group, has increasingly used first-person-view, or FPV, drones to attack Israeli troops, posing a major threat to the Israeli military that it hasn’t encountered in earlier rounds of fighting in Gaza and Lebanon, according to military officials and soldiers. The devices are a type of small, cheap drone that has wreaked havoc in Russia and Ukraine and was used more recently by Iranian-backed militias in Iraq to attack U.S. troops. They are difficult to detect, highly accurate and cost hundreds of dollars apiece.
Their deployment by Hezbollah has become widespread in recent weeks. On Thursday, the Israeli military said another soldier had been killed by an explosive drone in southern Lebanon, and on Tuesday, an Israeli man was killed after an FPV drone struck him and his son as they were operating excavators for the military there.
Drone footage released by Hezbollah and footage from the scene show a Sunday attack on Israeli forces in southern Lebanon.
The Israeli government and the military have faced mounting criticism at home for being unprepared for the drone attacks despite the Ukrainian precedent. They are now searching for techniques to neutralize the threat as Israel and Hezbollah continue to attack each other more than two weeks after the U.S. announced a cease-fire in southern Lebanon.
“I gave instructions a few weeks ago for a special project to destroy the drone threat,” Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in a video statement released Tuesday. “It will take time—but we will blow this up too.”
Hezbollah has recently released dozens of videos of FPVs hitting tanks, armored vehicles and excavators. The videos are set to upbeat music and show targets circled in red. Drone experts and military analysts said the videos showed Hezbollah’s drone operators were skillful and had likely been taught.
In particular, videos of Sunday’s drone attack taken by Hezbollah and Israeli soldiers have been widely shared in Israel, shown on national networks and cited as evidence the military was unprepared for the threat.
Ukraine’s former defense minister said the government had repeatedly offered to exchange knowledge with Israel to counter the Iranian drone threat, but was ignored.
“Unfortunately, our warnings were not taken into account,” Oleksiy Reznikov, Ukraine’s defense minister from 2021 to 2023, said in an interview. “Since Oct. 7, 2023, and continuing to this day, Israel has been facing the aggressive application of Russian-derived combat experience through Iranian proxies.”
Omg finally. I mean, for the love of God, Africa, Central America, and South American armed groups have been using them for months to years at this point. Ukraine made it clear how simple it was to use.....
Hezbollah's issue, though, is that the drones they have are easily jammed. Its not hard for a country like Israel to give troops portable jammers.
The drones are controlled via a glass fibre cable up to 60 km long.
They cannot be jammed.
If Russia doesn't have the capability, you expect me to think Hezbollah is able to produce 60 km long fiber optic cables? Give me a break. Not even Russia, with the ability to produce fiber optics internally, had 60 km fiber optic drones.
'Opinion: ‘It does not make sense to invest more Arab resources in a US alliance’
By Hussein Chokr
For decades, Gulf states operated under the assumption that their most important strategic partner was the United States. They built an extensive and multidimensional partnership with Washington, one that spanned security, energy, finance and diplomacy.
In launching its war alongside Israel against Iran, however, the US sidelined its Gulf partners, ignoring their appeals and concerns. Now, as the Trump administration attempts to negotiate with Iran, it again appears to have the interests of Israel as its top priority; the concerns of its Arab allies are once again overlooked.
No matter how much these countries have done or how much more they are willing to offer, their interests will remain expendable in Washington whenever they collide with those of Israel.'
source aljazeera
@Cje95 while you may refuse to acknowledge and factor in The Greater Israel Project and its impact on the entire region. Those being affected by this war will be however.
https://twiiit.com/WarTrackerX/status/2049214232609062960
An even more effective solution might be to stop invading other countries.
Israel has never started the wars. Hezbollah started the bombings that dragged Lebanon into this.
Let's also never forget that Hezbollah agreed to the ceasefire terms of United Nations Security Council Resolution 1701 in August 2006 to end the 34-day war with Israel, but it never complied with key requirements to disarm or withdraw from southern Lebanon.