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MembersHow Iran is changing warfare in northern Israel

While the world continues to focus on missiles, fighter jets, and large air-defense systems, the modern battlefield is already changing at low altitude.

A Hezbollah drone laden with explosives near the Israeli-Lebanese border during an attack on northern Israel, May 19, 2026. The increasing threat posed by cheap FPV and kamikaze drones is fundamentally changing modern warfare in northern Israel. Photo: Ayal Margolin/Flash90
A Hezbollah drone laden with explosives near the Israeli-Lebanese border during an attack on northern Israel, May 19, 2026. The increasing threat posed by cheap FPV and kamikaze drones is fundamentally changing modern warfare in northern Israel. Photo: Ayal Margolin/Flash90

Small FPV drones costing only a few hundred dollars are increasingly becoming one of the most dangerous weapons of asymmetric warfare. In the war between Israel and Hezbollah in particular, cheap kamikaze drones are showing how they can challenge even highly advanced armies, attack multi-million-dollar tanks, and slow down entire operations. They often appear like a swarm of aggressive flies in the sky — small, fast, difficult to detect, and deployed in large numbers. But that is precisely where their dangerous strength lies. Hundreds of cheap drones can keep even a technologically-advanced army like Israel under constant pressure, overload defensive systems, and strike soldiers with deadly effect even behind heavy armor. The real revolution in modern warfare is not currently coming from the skies of major air forces, but from small camera drones that are fundamentally changing the balance of power on the battlefield.

An Iranian website published a comprehensive analysis of a total of 252 Hezbollah explosive-drone attacks between March 19 and May 23 (see graphic). The study provides a rare, detailed insight into Hezbollah’s operational strategy in southern Lebanon...

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