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How Hezbollah’s fibre optic drones test Israel’s sophisticated radar system
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How Hezbollah’s fibre optic drones test Israel’s sophisticated radar system

Al Jazeera·Mohammad Mansour·about 1 month ago
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Immune to electronic jamming and invisible to radar, the low-cost aircraft are piercing through Israel’s multibillion-dollar defence systems. In the skies over the Lebanese town of Taybeh, Israel’s multibillion-dollar defence systems were rendered useless by a spool of cable, according to a report by the Israeli daily Yedioth Ahronoth (Ynet). As an Israeli medical evacuation helicopter rushed to rescue soldiers wounded in a drone attack, another unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) hurtled towards them. With their electronic countermeasures failing, soldiers on the ground were forced to point their rifles at the sky, firing at the incoming threat before it detonated just metres away. The chaotic scene underscores a lethal new reality in the escalating conflict. The Lebanese group Hezbollah has introduced a new weapon to the battlefield: first-person view (FPV) attack drones guided by a physical fibre optic cable.…

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