Invisible drones and missiles: Hezbollah's escalation
Hezbollah's announced escalation seems to be materialising, in the hours when Benyamin Netanyahu's residence in Caesarea, almost 100 kilometres from the Lebanese border, was also targeted
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Guided missiles and swarms of invisible drones: the announced escalation of Hezbollah seems to be taking shape, in the hours in which Benyamin Netanyahu's residence in Cesarea, almost 100 kilometres away from the Lebanese border, was also targeted.
Last Thursday, the militiamen of the Party of God had launched a new war proclamation, "a new phase of escalation" against the Jewish state, on the day the killing in Gaza of Yahya Sinwar and for this reason sounded to most as an attempt to rekindle the spirits of the supporters, already marked by the substantial decapitation of the Shiite movement's top leadership with the killing of its leaders by Israel, starting with Hassan Nasrallah.
Hezbollah has started to use 'precision missiles against enemy soldiers', was the announcement, which came after they claimed to have hit two Israeli tanks.
The group allegedly has more than 100,000 missiles of various types, including rockets and old Scuds, while precision missiles according to Western intelligence sources number at least 1,500 and have a range of up to 300 kilometres.
On the drones front then, capable of evading radar by rendering themselves essentially invisible, Hezbollah can count on vigorous Iranian support, with Tehran having become one of the most important producers in the sector over the years, and on other modified models, still made in Iran.
