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Inexpensive fiber-optic drones are challenging Israel's high-tech defenses, shifting the military balance in the Middle East.

A recent video showing an explosive-laden drone striking an Israeli Iron Dome battery couldn't have been more symbolic: Israel's famous air-defense system, which cost billions of euros, looked powerless against a small aircraft that cost a few hundred euros.

While the video's authenticity has not yet been verified, experts believe it is genuine.

The footage was published about a week ago by Hezbollah, a Lebanon-based pro-Iranian militia, which Germany, the US and several Sunni Arab states have classified as a terrorist organization.

The drone strike, if genuine, would mark propaganda victory for Hezbollah and reveal a significant vulnerability in Israel's military capabilities.

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[–] BillCheddar@lemmy.world 4 points 11 hours ago

I mean, no shit.

The hubris in thinking that your limited-number missiles can't be overwhelmed by sheer numbers ffs.

[–] theacharnian@lemmy.ca 17 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago)

There is only one guarantee for Israeli security and that's peace, deradicalization/dezionization (in the Matzpen sense, not in the ridiculous Yemelyanov sense), reparations, truth and reconciliation.

[–] Hell_nah_brother@thelemmy.club 17 points 1 day ago (1 children)

May all day in Israel be like this!

[–] bold_atlas@lemmy.world 11 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago) (1 children)

That looks like a very safe, cost effective and extremely sustainable way to live. Definitely a normal country.

[–] Hell_nah_brother@thelemmy.club 6 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Wait until you hear about the IDF Cum Extractor Unit: a totally normal military squad focused solely on jerking off dead men and racial purity. Very normal.

[–] Ragallos@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 15 hours ago (2 children)

Dude, I don't know if that's a dig at the depravity that exists in the IDF, or if that's real, but I wouldn't put it past them. Fucking Gross.

[–] Hell_nah_brother@thelemmy.club 3 points 12 hours ago

No that’s a totally real and normal thing the chosen people do. How do you preserve the racial purity otherwise?

[–] jaxxed@lemmy.world 36 points 1 day ago (14 children)

It seems that Iron Dome,like the Patriot, are desgned for the last war, not the current war. Asymmetric deployment of volumes of small&cheap units will overload these systems, or at least cost your opponent too much.

Even aganst peer weapons thay are onlyildly successful. In Ukraine the patriots have intercepted Kinzals,bit will never be able, nor cost effective against Oreshniks (as the split too early)

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