Hebrew media acknowledges the power of Lebanon’s Hezbollah in shooting down the occupying drone

In a conversation with the Zionist media, sources in the Zionist regime acknowledged that Lebanon’s Hezbollah has succeeded in intercepting the Zionist Kukhau (Hermes 900) drone.

Earlier, the Israeli army announced that a surface-to-air missile was fired at an Air Force drone that was on a mission in the sky of Lebanon, and it was hit and shot down in Lebanese territory.

Following this news, Lebanon’s Hezbollah announced: The Israeli drone we shot down was a Hermes 900 model.

According to Al-Mayadeen news website, these sources emphasized that the downing of the Hermes 900 drone by Hezbollah shows that the army’s drones are not safe.

In this regard, the Hebrew-language newspaper “Haaretz” acknowledged Hezbollah’s air defense capabilities, which intercepts army drones, and the Hermes 900 drone was not the first drone that Hezbollah intercepted, but it had also shot down the Zionist Hermes 450 drone in February. .

This newspaper wrote that according to various reports, Hezbollah’s anti-aircraft system is a combination of heavy artillery and shoulder-fired missiles such as “Strela 2” and “Igla”, which operate at high or medium altitudes.

Regarding Hezbollah’s air defense capabilities, Fabian Hentz, a researcher at the International Institute for Strategic Studies, said: “Hezbollah has not yet disclosed that it has more long-range anti-aircraft systems.”

He added that Zionist sources report that Hezbollah has received anti-aircraft radar systems from Iran and Syria, such as SA-22 and SA-17, which can reach ranges of tens of kilometers and altitudes of 15 kilometers or more, and drones such as to threaten Hermes 900.

According to Haaretz, the importance of Hizbullah’s downing of the Hermes 900 is that this drone, which entered operational service for the first time in 2014, can attack targets using ammunition such as precision air-to-ground missiles.

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This newspaper wrote, but most of Hermes 900’s activity is due to its long range and long flight ability, with continuous monitoring of areas and the use of electro-optical and thermal lenses, laser sensors and other devices that integrate radars to identify and track targets, information is.

Another feature of the Hermes 900 is that special pods can be installed on this type of UAV, which allows it to listen to various types of wireless communications, as well as various types of electronic warfare equipment, which enables it when necessary. disrupt and prevent wireless communication.

This is the achievement of the Lebanese resistance while since the Zionist attack on Gaza, the conflicts in the north of the occupied Palestine between the Zionist army and the Lebanese Hezbollah have increased.

Source: ISNA