Hi,
Fiber optic drones is what threat and scare us on our way up to Lebanon this time. This low-tech Hezbollah, goes around high-frequency jamming and satellite spoofing and goes km on km, and ever over the border.
Israel had spent the last decade building the world’s most sophisticated electronic warfare (EW) umbrella. If it has a radio signal, we can scramble it. If it uses GPS, we can make it think it’s in downtown Cairo. But how do you jam a piece of glass?
Our new security zone in Lebanon, that meant to prevent Hezbollah from launching drones, rockets, missiles and anti-tank missiles on Israel citizens has became a ground test for those drones. That, as I said, can pass the zone and reach even into Israel.
Those are FPV (First-Person View) drones trail a spool of fiber-optic cable as thin as dental floss. The operator controls the drone through the physical wire. No radio waves, no GPS and no signal for our “spectral defense” systems to grab onto.
Come to think about it, This way of control is not different from old anti-tank missiles (such as the TOW missile). But they fly much slower, and allows the controller better accuracy, not to talk about flying in an indirect trail to the target.
Hezbollah had imported this solution from the battlefields of Ukraine with Russia. High tech weapons finds its way around the globe easily, and for this low tech system all Hezbollah had to to, was to open YouTube, and watch a video.
The IDF and Israel defense industries are working tirelessly to find a solution to this new threat. Some are high tech, such as drones that fire nets to catch this fire optic drones. In the meanwhile the solution are low tech as the threat itself – wire mesh and fences around the posts and our armored vehicles. While soldiers are equipped with shotguns to shut them down.
Take Care
Gad
Ukrainian Fiber optic drones Source (armyinform.com.ua)