Hezbollah's 'game changing' night-hunting weapon punches through Israel's defenses: expert
Hezbollah has begun unleashing "game changing" waves of "lethal" nighttime drones against Israel, a defense expert warns, with the attacks contributing to casualties, defense breaches and plunging parts of the border region into chaos, according to reports.Escalating deployments by Hezbollah had also prompted Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to convene an emergency security meeting on May 30 following a surprise Hezbollah strike, amid reports of "utter chaos" as Israeli forces scrambled to respond."These nighttime drones are the very small Category 1 and Category 2 drones," defense expert and Draganfly CEO Cameron Chell told Fox News Digital."They are generally used by squads on the ground to go and conduct tactical lethal missions or surveillance missions right in theater immediately.What they are able to do is use thermal sensors to be able to fly at night and use heat signatures to spot IDF troops," he said.ISRAEL SAYS IT IS STRIKING HEZBOLLAH TARGETS IN LEBANONRockets are launched from Lebanon towards Israel amid escalating tensions between Hezbollah and Israel, as seen from the Israeli side of the border.
(Gil Eliyahu/Reuters)"Hezbollah now has nighttime capabilities, which is game changing," Chell added."What you will see is an escalation of the use of drones and the innovation of asymmetric warfare in that particular area by Hezbollah," he warned.Chell’s comments came amid reports of makeshift defenses with nets being deployed against the backdrop of a significant shift in the conflict.Israeli soldiers have resorted to buying commercial fishing and soccer nets to entangle the incoming aerial threats, according to reports."This means that there is a whole other set of countermeasures that the IDF has to put in place, whether it is electronic jamming, net guns or the use of netting just to put in front of installations or in front of vehicles to try to stop the final impact of the drone if it is a strike drone," Chell added.HEZBOLLAH DISARMAMENT DEADLOCK RI...