Israel to mass-produce FPV suicide drones to bolster frontline arsenals
TL;DR
Israel says it is building a factory to produce thousands of first-person-view (FPV) suicide drones for use across theaters of war, aiming to start at about 1,000 drones per month this July and scale to tens of thousands, with indigenous components to avoid Chinese parts. The move follows Hezbollah’s growing FPV attacks in southern Lebanon and comes amid broader global adoption of FPV drones and development of countermeasures like nets and active-protection systems; critics say Israel has been slow to defend against the threat.
- Israel Building Factory To Pump Out Its Own FPV Drones The War Zone
- Hezbollah’s unjammable drones pose new threat to Israel The Washington Post
- Evolving drone war in southern Lebanon clouds Iran peace prospects Reuters
- How Hezbollah’s $300 drones are challenging Israeli military The Guardian
- ‘The threat is manageable’: IDF downplays Hezbollah drone campaign The Jerusalem Post
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