Hezbollah Has Learned How to Pilot Deadly Drones Into Israeli Troops
WSJ
'Cheap weapons pioneered in the Russia-Ukraine war are being adopted by Iran and its allies
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.'
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Hezbollah Has Learned How to Pilot Deadly Drones Into Israeli Troops
WSJ
'Cheap weapons pioneered in the Russia-Ukraine war are being adopted by Iran and its allies
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.'