Tethered FPV Drones Bypass Israel’s Defenses in Lebanon Clash
Hezbollah has deployed fibre‑optic tethered FPV attack drones that operate without wireless links, extending 10–30 km and evading electronic warfare and the Trophy armor defenses. Operators steer the drones using uncompressed video along the fiber to hit armored targets, a tactic demonstrated in Taybeh where a drone attack killed a soldier and wounded others as a rescue helicopter arrived. Israeli commanders describe the threat as hard to counter and have resorted to improvised defenses like nets, signaling a new asymmetric battlefield development now seen in other conflicts; weather and line reliability remain potential vulnerabilities.
