Hezbollah adopts a new weapon: Fiber-optic drones, used widely in the war in Ukraine
Hezbollah’s low-cost drones are evading Israeli jamming and have killed two soldiers in the past week, officials said.
- On Friday, Hezbollah released footage confirming an FPV drone destroyed an Israeli Merkava tank, striking its anti-drone protective cage atop the turret. This marked the first confirmed visual evidence of such a destruction.
- Fiber-Optic drones bypass electronic jamming by hardwiring operators directly to targets through physical wire connections, revolutionizing asymmetric warfare since their widespread adoption in the Ukraine war. Hezbollah has increasingly deployed these weapons against Israeli forces in southern Lebanon.
- Israeli forces struggle to defend against fiber-optic signals, as traditional jamming systems cannot disrupt the physical wire connection. Military officials acknowledge that improvised barriers like soccer nets remain imperfect solutions to the low-tech threat.
- Hezbollah FPV drone attacks killed Israeli Sgt. Idan Fooks and resident Amer Hujeirat over the past week, while a single strike on Thursday wounded 12 soldiers when it hit an armored cargo vehicle. The attacks continue despite a ceasefire.
- Leveraging financial backing from Iran, Hezbollah may be assembling some drones locally rather than importing fully built systems. Israeli officials estimate the group retains just 10% of its approximately 150,000 pre-war rockets, limiting traditional arsenal capacity.
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Hezbollah uses a new formidable weapon, difficult to detect and neutralize in southern Lebanon: the drone connected by fiber optics.
Hizbollah incorporated a new weapon designed to attack and prevent Israeli detection and interference.It is a quadricopter drone loaded with explosives, which works with fiber optics.It navigates accurately and operates with a high-resolution view of the targets, while it presents an important difficulty to be detected and stopped, because it does not emit signals that can be intervened.Unlike other drones that operate with wireless signals to b…
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