Among the most sophisticated in the world, Israel's air defenses also appear to have a weakness that is causing growing concern among security officials.
The new threat on the horizon consists of suicide drones that pose problems for radars because they move at a relatively low speed, fly at low altitude and are capable of hitting the target with maximum precision.
In recent weeks - writes the economic daily Calcalist, of the Yediot Ahronot group - two Hezbollah drones from Lebanon have in fact given an alarm signal.
One exploded in the border village of Margaliot in the Upper Galilee, causing the death of a soldier, and the other hit the headquarters of the Northern Region Military Command.
Whoever manages to maneuver a single suicide drone can theoretically launch swarms of dozens of drones.
And their simultaneous attack, the newspaper states, would represent a considerable danger for power plants and other emergency infrastructures in Israel, as well as for military bases and troop concentration zones.
Israel, writes Calcalist, has studied the dynamics of a drone attack that occurred in 2019 against Aramco in Saudi Arabia, as well as similar developments still underway in the war between Russia and Ukraine.
With Tehran supporting the Lebanese Hezbollah, one of the models considered most insidious is the Shahed 136, of Iranian production, constantly used by Moscow to strike in Ukrainian territory.
With the escalation on the Northern border with Hezbollah, Israel must take into consideration the possibility that this type of attack could occur in a short time and - according to Calcalist - is already committed to acquiring countermeasures: purchasing already existing technologies and trying to make them available point of new ones.
The efforts, according to the newspaper, are oriented in various directions.
One of these involves attempting to jam and alter the transmission frequencies used by drones.
Another concerns the effort to locate offensive swarms while they are still distant from their target, and to neutralize them using the remote-controlled Typhoon and Mini-Typhoon cannons from the Israeli Rafael company.
In the meantime, Elbit and the Israeli airline industry are also trying to develop new defense systems, fearing, the newspaper concludes, that time is running out.
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