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Hizbullah's UAVs Threaten Israel


(Institute for National Security Studies) Dr. Yehoshua Kalisky - As part of the fighting in the north, Hizbullah is using UAVs for suicide attacks. Israel's air defense copes well with them, but sometimes the UAV's advantages - slow flight speed at low altitude and low radar signature - deceive the detection and defense systems. As a result, and since there is never a hermetic defense, there are occasional infiltrations of UAVs into strategic sites and military bases. In the third week of February 2024, two UAVs infiltrated Israel and unexpectedly hit civilian targets without being detected. The writer, a senior researcher at INSS, was a senior scientist at the Nuclear Research Center Negev (NRCN).
2024-02-27 00:00:00
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