Nasrallah Air Force: This is how Hezbollah plans to attack sensitive sites in Israel

The military arm of Hezbollah exposed the drones in its service in 2004, and since then it has been improving its capabilities in the field in order to undermine the Israeli Air Force's superiority, when the last glider it operated this week managed to penetrate Israel - and return safely. Senior researcher: "The term 'deterrence' Does not exist there "

Amir Bohbot

20/02/2022

Sunday, 20 February 2022, 14:35 Updated: 14:43

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In the video: Air Force planes in the skies of Beirut (Walla! NEWS system)

The drone that infiltrated Israel from Lebanon on Friday is part of a secret plan by Hezbollah and Iran to build a Shiite air arm

composed of a wide range of unmanned aircraft that will operate on sensitive sites throughout Israel and violate Israeli Air Force supremacy.

The drones were in her service in November 2004 when they managed to infiltrate "Mirsad" into Israeli airspace for 18 minutes and skillfully return it to its base.

Since then, 18 years of power building and empowerment have passed, mainly with the help of defense industries, the military and the Revolutionary Guards in Iran.

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The arsenal includes 2,000 items.

Hezbollah aircraft infiltrated Israeli territory (Photo: Official website, from Twitter)

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According to a report by the Alma Institute - Educational Research Center for Security Challenges, Hezbollah's unmanned aerial vehicle includes 2,000 items.

It also has dozens of skimmers made in China, some of which are used for photography and intelligence gathering missions and some for assault missions.

A similar drone infiltration also took place in 2005. During the Second Lebanon War, attempts were made to infiltrate drones into Israeli territory - but the Air Force displayed impressive interception capability and hit everyone, including a "Ababil" drone. In October 2012, a drone was launched from Lebanon via The Mediterranean Sea that reached as far as Yatir Forest and was intercepted by the Air Force.

A year later, a Hezbollah UAV was intercepted in Haifa Bay. In 2014, Hezbollah uncovered a UAV over the house of Hezbollah's opposition political figure, Samir Jaja.

In 2015-2017, Hezbollah fired missile-carrying UAVs in the Al-Kalmon and Aleppo areas against rebels and opponents of the Assad regime. Some of the activity was documented and broadcast by the Al-Manar network. For the purpose of gathering intelligence over the Galilee during an IDF exercise.

Is an inspiration to Hezbollah.

The Israeli Hermes 450 (Photo: IDF Spokesman)

Most of the effort - in the air.

Hezbollah-owned UAV (Photo: Official website, Tasnim from Wikipedia)

According to Israeli security sources, "Hezbollah's power building relies not only on Iranian money but on the accumulated knowledge of the Iranian defense industries. Hezbollah, like other terrorist organizations, receives shipments of weapons that include drones of various types - and more.

Only last week, Nasrallah boasted that the organization had the ability to produce drones on Lebanese soil. "I will not address the truth of the matter."

According to a report by the Alma Institute, Hezbollah's prominent UAVs are "Job" inspired by the Israeli Hermes UAV that fell in Beirut in 2006. A similar UAV was intercepted by the rebels in Syria in 2016. Another UAV is "Mirsad 2 "Based on the Iranian Mujahr UAV," Ababil "unveiled in 2006 and has since undergone advanced upgrades and models," Ma'arab "operated by Hezbollah in Syria, and" Rami 1 "which is a replica of the Iranian" Raed 1 ". According to security sources , The Iranians have hundreds of types of UAVs for ranges, missions, and respectively in different sizes and therefore the Armed Forces assume that the weapons that Iran has and the Iranian Quds Force have Hezbollah among them UAVs that cover the entire state of Israel in automatic, autonomous operation, know how to land , Take off and land vertically.

Also, in the last decade, two runways in the Jordan Valley have been exposed for UAVs operating in Syria.

The head of the research department of the Alma Center, Tal Barry, referred to Walla!

The building of Hezbollah's power and Nasrallah's strategy.

"Hezbollah's military force building has not been damaged in recent years but has only intensified. We understand that the last decade can be put under the heading of Hezbollah's effort to increase the supply of advanced conventional weapons in the field of UAVs, air defense, precision missiles and the like.

" From Israel, "Barry continued." The term 'deterrent' does not exist in his lexicon.

Hezbollah is acting only in its own interests - and if it is deterred it is only from the internal situation within Lebanon.

It is not Israeli deterrence that influences his decision to attack, but internal interests.

His interests also include Iranian elements, but not in an absolute way.

The Shiite axis led by Iran has realized that it is possible to give weight to the Israeli Air Force through precision missiles and UAVs - and that is where most of the effort goes.

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