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.
The Israeli army launched a new wave of strikes in Lebanon last night in response to Hezbollah’s explosive kamikaze drones. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu responded to growing criticism of Israel’s helplessness in the face of the drone...
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