Is it literally just a drone with a wired connection to the controller? How does that even work? Doesn’t that make for a very limited range?
Is it literally just a drone with a wired connection to the controller? How does that even work? Doesn’t that make for a very limited range?
“Using common parts that are in all kinds of other things”
The photo shows an off the shelf drone frame with off the shelf motors, propellers and antennas.
I’d love to think they are building their own flight controllers from cellphone parts and winding their own brushless motors, but that doesn’t seem to be the case.
“they are using common parts used in common appliances”
Name even one part aside from maybe the batteries.
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I can only go on what is reported. I also don’t think it’s something so guerrilla as winding motors, but a mixture of smuggling and repurposing. To your point there are several[1] reports[2] of busting European drone smuggling networks destined for Lebanon.
At the same time Hezbollah makes their own claims such as this propaganda video they released of their drone manufacturing facilities, and an article with some more context.
https://www.lbcgroup.tv/news/news-bulletin-reports/784852/hezbollahs-drone-supply-key-components-sourced-from-europe/en ↩︎
https://www.newsrael.com/posts/ag6hnmf48gf ↩︎