Air force admits difficulty stopping Hezbollah FPV drones
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Updated · The Jerusalem Post · May 1
Air force admits difficulty stopping Hezbollah FPV drones
8 articles · Updated · The Jerusalem Post · May 1
On Friday, it said recent attacks in Lebanon killed or wounded IDF soldiers and that tests held about two weeks ago could eventually reshape defences.
The air force said Hezbollah's manually operated first-person-view drones are harder to jam and more lethal, and that new tactics will not quickly eliminate the threat.
It added the biggest improvement would come if the US let Israel strike Hezbollah north of the Litani River, which officials said could cut the FPV drone threat by about 80%.
With fiber-optic FPV drones outsmarting Israel's defenses, how soon could a game-changing countermeasure realistically be deployed on the battlefield?
Does the rise of cheap, precise FPV drones signal a fundamental shift in modern warfare, making traditional heavy armor and air defenses obsolete?
Could expanding Israeli strikes north of the Litani River truly reduce the drone threat, or might it trigger even more advanced tactics from Hezbollah?