A drone bearing a Hezbollah flag in Aramta, southern Lebanon, during a military parade organized in May 2023 to commemorate the liberation of the South from Israeli occupation. (Credit: Anwar Amro/AFP)
Hezbollah’s fiber-optic FPV drones, whose extensive use has inflicted losses among Israeli occupation soldiers in southern Lebanon, has prompted observers to question the timing of this relatively recent but strategic move. Why did Hezbollah only use these drones after Israelis had already occupied a significant strip of territory? And above all, how did the group obtain these devices, which have rendered Israel’s occupation of the South more costly? Find out more about how the FPV works Primitive 'explosive drones' are Hezbollah's newest asset against Israeli forces in southern Lebanon These explosive drones, piloted from a distance of around ten kilometers and providing the user a first-person view of the terrain, are small, inexpensive devices capable of bypassing the Israeli army’s sophisticated electronic jamming and radar...
Hezbollah’s fiber-optic FPV drones, whose extensive use has inflicted losses among Israeli occupation soldiers in southern Lebanon, has prompted observers to question the timing of this relatively recent but strategic move. Why did Hezbollah only use these drones after Israelis had already occupied a significant strip of territory? And above all, how did the group obtain these devices, which have rendered Israel’s occupation of the South more costly? Find out more about how the FPV works Primitive 'explosive drones' are Hezbollah's newest asset against Israeli forces in southern Lebanon These explosive drones, piloted from a distance of around ten kilometers and providing the user a first-person view of the terrain, are small, inexpensive devices capable of bypassing the Israeli army’s sophisticated electronic jamming and...
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