Let’s check in with Hezbollah on the northern front, because God knows they’re body checking ‘Israel’ well enough. Hezbollah was never defeated, albeit depleted, but this has only repleted their ranks to display great feats of bravery, which we have first-person views of now, as discussed.

First, Context

‘Israel’ has invaded and occupied southern Lebanon, blowing up bridges, hospitals, homes, and generally trying to Gaza the place.

‘Israel’ has at least five divisions there. Their names are, I shit you not, Fire, Rage, Steel, Galilee, and Bang. These are stormtroopers, armor, armor, infantry, and reserves, disrespectively. They also have a lot of ‘civilian’ contractors (mainly for the purpose of denying them benefits) doing demolition work (with Caterpillar D9 Bulldozers, etc).

The goal is the ethnic cleansing of predominantly Shia villages in southern Lebanon, to attack the base of Hezbollah as a people’s organization by attacking the people. They are of course targeting hospitals and healthcare, this is openly their thing now.

As Ha’aretz (the thinking man’s Der Stürmer) reports,

Khiam is ruined and desolate. It looks like not a single structure is standing. When one of the soldiers speaks of the "destruction of homes," his commander corrects him – "destruction of infrastructure."

Note that ‘Israelis’ don’t really lie in Hebrew, they don’t care to. But within that report you can also see how Hezbollah is responding. As the report continues,

The tractors and bulldozers are parked in a corner of the town after a long day of work. Along the way to the town, one can spot Defense Ministry contractors, who are civilians. While getting off the vehicles, two soldiers climb up a mound of rubble. These are stargazers of sorts: They are looking for drones. Within a few minutes, an "Air hammer!" call is heard, a heads-up that there may be a drone in the area. What do the soldiers do? Not very different from what they did in wars a century ago. They look for cover and jump behind a sandbank. Other soldiers try to neutralize the threat by firing their guns.

That is what Hezb is facing here, and you can see how they’re facing it. With a First-Person View against genocide.

FPVs

Max Planck said, “A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it.” First-Person View (FPV) Drones existed all through this fight, but for whatever reason Hezbollah didn’t use them much. But now an entire layer of top and middle management has been martyred and the new Hezbollah has seen the light.

None of this is to disparage those great martyrs that went before, the innovations that they pioneered (Kornets, larger drones, trained ground troops, intelligence units) form the backbone of the war effort. But that effort has four more arms now, in the form of quadcopters. Peace be upon those who went before, and more warpower to those that go forward.

Drone Technicalities

I lean on Jon Elmer’s technical reporting here, I recommend just watching his updates on Electronic Intifada, I’m just regurgitating.

Elmer says Hezbollah immediately jumped to fiber-optic drones (which evolved out of radar-jamming in Ukraine slowly). These things, as you can see, have a big ‘fishing-line’ spool of fiber-optic line that literally flies the drone by wire. Hezbollah has then strapped their standard anti-tank shell (what looks like a 93mm PG-7VL) which is comically large ordance for a drone, I dunno how these things even fly, but they do.

Fiber-optics come with two benefits, they are unjammable and incredibly responsive. And using large rounds can cause significant damage even through a cope cage (the grills and netting placed around tanks since Ukraine). The only defense against these fishing lines with bomb bait is, wait for it, fishing net.

As the prophet Jesus said, talking about something else entirely, “Now as He walked by the Sea of Galilee, He saw Simon and Andrew his brother casting a net into the sea, for they were fishers. And Jesus said unto them, ‘Come ye after Me, and I will make you to become fishers of men.’”

Since the Rocket-Propelled Grenade (RPG) shells Hezb uses are not, in fact, rocket-propelled, all ‘Israeli’ defensive mechanisms are like what the hell? For example, you can sometimes see the defensive Trophy system on Merkava tanks turn around, but it doesn’t fire. If it fired at FPV drones it would also be firing at every flipping bird, which would be absurd. FPV Drones are too slow-moving for the air defenses ‘Israel’ has evolved. It’s like the ‘slow blade’ in Dune, where the advent of personal shields took them back to sword-fighting because anything fast-moving would be stopped.

The only way to reliably intercept FPV drones is with dumb fishing wire net, which limits your freedom of movement and still has an entrance somewhere, or with smart, situation-aware soldiers using shotguns, which does not describe IOF home invaders and panty raiders. IOF soldiers still park their tanks with the hatches open, still do not cover their tanks with infantry, and hang out on the hood. And now I have seen them blown up in all three circumstances. They have learned nothing from Gaza, let alone from Ukraine.

Another technical aspect of these drone strikes is that they can take apart ‘Israeli’ armor (Namer transports, Merkava tanks) at the weak points. Even Caterpillar D9 bulldozers are relatively well-armored, but they still have doors, joints, ammunition stores, fuel tanks, and other spots where a well-placed round can cause catastrophic damage. And FPV drones can course correct up until the last moment to hit these exact points.

Drone Eventualities

As per the Iranian think tank Union Center, there were 73 FPV strikes in one monthish and by the time I did a report on their report, there’s a dozen more. While I honestly feel like I’ve seen every major Kornet strike, I cannot keep up with the FPV attacks of the last 24 hours. Here they are, for your priors.

Note what Hezb is targeting here, and how. The scenes open with multi-barrel rocket launchers, ie old-school but highly effective artillery. You can see the sons of the soil in the dirt, hand-assembling these things, next to pictures of the martyrs Nasrallah and Khamenei. Then they launch Hezbollah’s older, ‘third-person’ drones, ie mini-Shaheds. These operations hopefully hit something, but we can’t see, limiting their propaganda utility.

Then we get to the FPVs, flying with the missile. These scenes open with them targeting a JCB digger, ie the ‘civilian’ equipment ‘Israel’ uses to attack civilians. In the same way, they come across a wealth of demolition targets, and choose to hit a bulldozer right in the chink of its armor.

In these videos you can see the ruins the invaders have made of south Lebanon, demolishing houses and tearing up roads. Hezbollah is hitting the evil men who do this, and the machines they use to do so, and you can’t say it’s undeserved.

This is one of the best videos, not included in the montage, that shows them expertly targeting a command-and-control vehicle. Things are increasingly out of control for the ‘Israeli’ invasion of Lebanon, which was already not going well.

Drone Psychology

Describing the new drone threat, an IOF officer told Ha’aretz, “It’s a tactical threat, but not strategic,” but IOF soldiers and contractors are taking tactical dumps in their pants nonetheless. The biggest impact of FPVs is psychological. The IOF knows that they can get hit, as Janet Jackson said, anytime, anyplace and that puts the fear of God into otherwise g-dless people.

And in terms of propaganda, FPVs record at the same time as flying. So We are suddenly getting a lot of footage, unsettling the settlers terribly. In the past, for an anti-tank missile strike there would be one team spotting, one team shooting, and possibly another recording, and then someone editing the montage together. This could take days or weeks, not to mention the physical danger to everybody involved, and the video you got only showed impact from afar. Now they just take the footage from the drone, put a title card on it, and upload. And you see the asses and elbows of IOF soldiers running. The ordanance is less, but the pyschological impact is more.

This is important because the materiel you see getting blown can get replaced—the ‘Israeli’ conscript colony has received more than 115,600 tons of military equipment in 403 airlifts and 10 sealifts since this Iran War alone—but the conscripts and contractors operating it can break permanently. Many of them have already been deployed for years and in addition to Hezbollah fighters—described as ghosts—they now have drone fears. ‘Israel’s’ will to fight has been broken in Lebanon before, and inshallah will be again.

Finally, as context for these drone wars, it’s worth noting what ‘Israel’ uses its drones for. It used one for a strike on a father in a car, and then when his 12-year-old daughter ran away, it chased her down and killed her too. This is the absolute depravity of these people. Meanwhile the so-called terrorists are targeting exclusively military targets. So-called by who? Adjust your first-person view.