As Israelis investigate how a Hezbollah drone managed to evade their air defenses and kill four soldiers in an attack on a military base on Sunday, experts say the Iran-backed Lebanese group hopes to overwhelm Israel by launching a series of drones cheap and difficult to detect suicides.
Relatively cheap to produce and easy to operate, drones are more difficult to detect and intercept by Israel’s Iron Dome missile defense system. Orna Mizrahi, a senior researcher at the Institute for National Security Studies (INSS) in Tel Aviv, told CNN that this is mainly due to the fact that they “are small, very light and have a very low radar signature,” adding that Israel’s radar systems do not always detect them in the same way they detect missiles, which are larger.
Neither Hezbollah nor Israel said which drones were used in Sunday’s attack. Hezbollah, in a statement, said it used “several drones, some used for the first time.”
But experts say it was probably Mirsad drones, known in Iran as Ababil drones. This drone is “a single-use, low-flying, slow-flying attack drone with an estimated 40 to 50 kg warhead,” Behnam Ben Taleblu, a senior fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies in Washington, D.C., told CNN .
The difficulty in tracking drones increases due to the fact that they don’t always follow a fixed direction, Mizrahi said. “Drones can change direction during flight,” he said, adding that “you can’t understand where they’re going, or what they’re going to hit.”
Knowing that Israel is investing resources in its anti-missile system, Hezbollah is adding drones to the equation, having identified this as “a weakness” for Israel, Mizrahi said.
Ben Taleblu noted that the drone strike and rocket bombardment of northern Israel over the weekend suggests that “despite having reportedly lost half of its arsenal, Hezbollah remains determined and intent on seeking gaps in the layered air defenses. of Israel.”
This content was originally published in Analysis: Hezbollah seeks to overwhelm Israel’s defenses with difficult-to-intercept drones on the CNN Brasil website.
Source: CNN Brasil
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