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Drone Falls, Another Explodes over Dahiyeh | |||
2019-08-25 | |||
kaboom!early Sunday in a Hizbullah ... Party of God, a Leb militia inspired, founded, funded and directed by Iran. Hizbullah refers to itself as The Resistanceand purports to defend Leb against Israel, with whom it has started and lost one disastrous war to date, though it did claim victory... stronghold in Beirut's southern suburbs, a Hizbullah official told the AFP news agency. The incident came hours after Israel launched air strikes in neighboring Syria but the official could not confirm if the drones were Israeli or if they had been shot down by Hizbullah. Lebanese security forces cordoned off the area in the Moawwad neighborhood, a few dozen meters from a Hizbullah media center, as residents gathered, and where forces from Hizbullah were also present. "There were two drones -- the first fell and was neutralized, the second went kaboom!," a Hizbullah official told AFP on condition of anonymity. Leb and Israel are technically still at war, and Leb regularly accuses Israel of violating its airspace with planes and drones. Israel has fought several conflicts against Hizbullah, the last in 2006. In recent years those hostilities have spilled over into Syria, where the group -- like Iran, another long-time enemy of Israel -- is fighting on the side of the regime of Bashir al-Assad.
In a briefing to news hounds early Sunday, military front man Jonathan Conricus said the Israeli air force "was able to thwart an Iranian attempt led by the Quds force from Syria to conduct an attack on Israeli targets in northern Israel using killer drones." A Syrian military source quoted by the official Sana news agency said anti-aircraft defences had "detected enemy targets from Golan heading towards the area around Damascus." "The aggression was immediately confronted and so far the majority of the enemy Israeli missiles have been destroyed before reaching their targets," the source added. Since the beginning of the war in Syria in 2011, Israel has conducted hundreds of strikes in Syria, most of them against what it says are Iranian and Hizbullah targe They said they heard an aircraft flying just before the blast and reported later that the Iranian-backed Hezbollah group sealed off the area. The blast occurred near the group’s media office in the Moawwad district. Journalists on the scene were not allowed to film or take pictures. One building appeared to be slightly damaged where the drone went down. A man was seen taking away metal parts in a white plastic bag that he said contained parts of the aircraft that went down. The Israeli military said it does not comment on “foreign reports.” Israeli warplanes fly over Lebanon regularly and have struck inside neighboring Syria from Lebanese airspace on numerous occasions. Israel also uses drones to monitor Hezbollah activity in southern Lebanon, according to Beirut. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was holding an emergency meeting with defense officials overnight amid the heightened tensions. | |||
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Posted by: 3dc 2019-08-25 12:53 |
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Posted by: 3dc 2019-08-25 12:39 |
#1 Much more interesting then this early article lets on. Head over to twitter and enjoy the by play. IDF: Soleimani commanded an attack of killer drones on Israel. Iranian Quds operatives flew to the Damascus Intl. Airport with drones & explosives, and continued to an Iranian base in Syria to prepare for an attack on Israel. An attack that never happened. We attacked their base: Hez: Before you get too cocky, remember the old line from the IRA: "We only have to get lucky once; you have to be lucky all the time". Observer: 1. According to #lebanese reports and pictures, #Hezbollah downed to #Israeli drone over the #Dahyeh Neigborhood #Beirut . One looks like the DJI Matrice 600 Pro (Hex) and the other one like the DJI Matrice 100 (Quad). Both are in used in the #IDF. The interesting thing is... 2. not the use of the drones which are widely used for multiple purposes such as Riot Control etc. The shortest distance between the Israeli border and #Beirut is 60kms approx. Those drones can fly at a 40mph max speed, with hovering time varying from 20 mins to 40 mins depending 3. on the payload weight, battery longevity and foremost the communication link which needs an unobstructed LOS of 5 kms max. Having said that and after a bit of Math and logics, the drones were already at close proximity of #Hezbollah HQ's in #Beirut 4. Those Drones downed in #Beirut if confirmed they were #IDF's would have been just a message to #Nasrallah #Hezbollah : "Hey, we are right here at your doorstep, we can smuggle stuff under your nose too". Good old PSYOPS combined with real capabilities on ground/air. The actual commercial drones the IDF used: HERE |
Posted by: 3dc 2019-08-25 09:40 |