Israel’s Iron Dome fails to detect Hezbollah FPV drones

Hezbollah’s cheap First-Person View (FPV) drones are penetrating Israel’s billion-dollar Iron Dome system.

The drones, guided by a physical fibre optic cable, are immune to electronic jamming and pretty much invisible to radar systems, meaning Israel has no effective defence against them.

According to Al Jazeera:

Unlike traditional drones that rely on radio frequencies or satellite signals, these modified aircraft are tethered directly to the operator’s control station by a fibre optic thread. The cable can extend between 10–30km [6.2 to 18.6 miles], allowing the drone to reach distant targets.

Because there is no wireless signal to intercept, the drones are immune to Israel’s sophisticated electronic warfare (EW) jamming systems. Furthermore, the aircraft are constructed from lightweight fibreglass, meaning they emit almost no thermal or radar signature.

This means that Hezbollah can manually steer the drones toward specific targets, such as tanks, aided by high-resolution optical cameras that transmit uncompressed video via the cable.

Israel has admitted that there is not much it can do about the FPV drones, except “shoot at them”.

FPV bypassing the Iron Dome

Israel first deployed the Iron Dome in 2011. It is supposedly:

one of the most effective, battle-tested air defence systems in service today.

Except when it comes to Hezbollah’s drones.

The system is expensive, so it must be heartbreaking for Israel that cheap FPV drones can bypass it.

According to RMZ:

a complete system, including the radar, computer and three to four launchers – each containing up to 20 interceptors – costs around US$100 million to produce.

Israel has 10 such systems in operation, taking the estimated cost to $1bn.

Armed resistance

A United Nations General Assembly resolution states:

The General Assembly,

Reaffirms the legitimacy of the struggle of peoples for independence, territorial integrity, national unity and liberation from colonial domination, apartheid and foreign occupation by all available means, including armed struggle;

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Hezbollah’s resistance to Israeli occupation was instrumental in the IOF leaving Lebanon in 2000, after 18 years.

Since then, Israel has continued to illegally occupy both Gaza and the Syrian Golan Heights. Here’s what the UN says about it. Recently, Israel has also invaded Lebanon once again.

Of course, Israel and the West have labelled Hezbollah as a ‘terrorist group’ and called for their disarmament, when they’re only defending the land they are native to.

The West only proscribed Hezbollah because of intense pressure from the Israel Lobby.

The entire Jewish supremacist ethnostate literally runs and was founded on terrorism, yet we will never find any of its blood-thirsty components proscribed — not the IOF, not the Mossad, none of the trigger-happy, child-killing, rapist colonisers will be labeled as terrorists.

The IOF booby-trapped pagers, killing 42 and injuring thousands. If that isn’t an act of ‘terrorism’, I don’t know what is. On the contrary, we shield them and enable their crimes by proscribing everyone resisting them as terrorists.

Was it not us who gave Palestinian land to “zionist aspirations”?

Fuck around and find out.

So if Israel is going to keep fucking around, it’s going to keep finding out.

Hezbollah even managed to transform one drone into a suppository for one IOF soldier.

At the end of the day, you can’t run from what was promised to you 3,000 years ago. And just maybe, that was a drone up the ass.

Feature image via X

By The Canary

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