Hezbollah has been sharing first person views of 'Israelis' running into port-a-potties, falling out of bulldozers, and jumping off tanks, ie, shortly before they get blown up. Hezbollah—left for dead after the assassination of Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah—is back with vengeance, and leaving the colonizers for dead instead.

As per the US sanctioned (and thus reputable) Union Center, there were 73 FPV (first person viewer) drone attacks between March 19 and April 25, 2026. They categorize them, helpfully, and I add videos below, followed by my views.

The Five Types

In chess terms, Hezbollah is using drones as knights, sacrificial pawns, pawn swarms, rooks, and bishops. Let me explain.

They used them as knights in the sense that they're able to move in an L-shape, either horizontally then vertically to get past (ballistic) air defenses, or vertically then horizontally, to get past (Trophy) tank defenses. Hezbollah also uses drones as sacrificial pawns in that they can be used to trigger and exhaust defenses, or as pawn swarms in that they can completely overwhelm them. These drones are used as rooks in the sense of ambush weapons, and also as bishops, for very precise targeting from afar. Furthermore they can be used together, with other weapons, making them a force multiplier.

These are the types of usage that the Union Center reports:

1. ♞Vertical dive attacks: Disabling the horizontally oriented Trophy defense system on tanks by cutting like a knight in chess. The drones drop down vertically and then cut in at the last minute, under the cope cage (the BBQ on top, seemingly the only thing 'Israel' learned from Ukraine).
2. ♟♟ Double strike: Using the drone with conventional munitions (like the anti-tank Kornet). They describe using a Kornet to trigger a defensive response, and then using drones to finish the defenseless tank off.
3. ♟♟♟♟ Incendiary bombardment: Coordinated group attacks, ie drone swarms. For example, “On Monday, April 13, 2026, the resistance launched a simultaneous attack using incendiary devices, targeting six different Israeli positions at the same time. This tactic completely paralyzed and confused Israeli observation and command systems, preventing them from providing fire support or evacuating the wounded.”
4. ♜ Supporting ambushes: The general strategy in guerrilla war is to lure the invaders into ambushes. Hezbollah then lights them up with artillery and small arms. FPV drones now supplement this tactic, enabling the Resistance to stay further away without sacrificing accuracy or adaptability. For example, “On Thursday, March 19, 2026, an Israeli infantry force was lured to a specific location in the area of Baydar al-Fuqa'ani, east of Taybeh, through a light ambush. As soon as the force was exposed and gathered to take up defensive positions, incendiary devices attacked them simultaneously with artillery shelling.”
5. ♝ Urban/Night Warfare: A classic Palestinian tactic was striking IOF soldiers hanging out near windows, but this was done through snipers or anti-tank missile operators, most of who are sadly dead now. Using humans, this is a very high risk operation, requiring very skilled operators who then disappear forever (may their sacrifice be accepted). The Lebanese are now doing the same thing via FPV drones, and presumably surviving (I hope). With night vision, they can do this at night, harrying the IOF endlessly.

The Six Uses (With Examples)

In terms of the purpose of these attacks, the Union Center divides them into six main use cases, which I'll illustrate with examples.

1/ Armor Killer

“Hunting heavy armor (the Merkava and Nameriyah massacre): More than 27 operations targeted Merkava tanks and Nameriyah armored personnel carriers. Incendiary devices became the primary "armor killer," surpassing guided missiles that could reveal the shooter's location.”

There are many videos like this, I'm honestly selecting a bit randomly. Tanks have obviously evolved to be armored, but they're not armored everywhere, and drones can target them precisely, literally taking them apart at the joints. That means hitting the Merkavas in their defensive systems (called Trophy), ammunition stores, and sometimes just flying in the hatch, which these dumbasses leave open.

Massed armor, in general, has been proven a dumbass tactic in the modern era, but the 'Israelis' are used to slaughtering children and still just park their tanks in circles with the hatches open. They have evolved ‘cope cages’—grills protecting the tank—so they've learned something from Ukraine, but not much, and it appears that Hezbollah is learning faster.

2/ Neutralizing engineering and destroying command

“Bulldozers (Caterpillar D9 armored, as happened in Sharaf and Taybeh) were targeted to prevent the enemy army from leveling terrain, building roads, or demolishing houses. A significant focus was also placed on striking Humvees to sever communication lines.”

'Israel' is one of the few militaries to field armored bulldozers, because they're fundamentally genocidal and want to destroy human habitation. These bulldozers are armored up to a point, but also open, and Hezbollah is now just flying drones in the side, or taking them apart at the joints. Same thing for cranes, all the civilian technology they use for dismantling civilian life.

The IOF also uses open jeeps and lightly armored (from the side) Humvees, and Hezbollah is using drones to chase them down and sever communication lines (ie, to target commanders and messengers that travel in them). You can see this happening over and over. In Gaza they were exposed to, effectively, small arms fire, but with drones the arms become much longer now, with the brain tucked safely away. Since Hezb is using fiber-optic drones, these connections cannot be jammed.

3/ Targeting forces

“The incendiary devices provided a flexible and accurate alternative to artillery. Hunting infantry in urban warfare: (Ada, Shama, Taybeh). These attacks inflicted fatal casualties inside fortified rooms that were located inside houses.”

Drone warfare has made troop concentration very difficult, a lesson the IOF is learning. Even taking shelter in buildings doesn't work because, unlike artillery, these munitions can just fly in the window or the door. This being the warm Middle East, and the 'Israelis' having a tendency to destroy civilian infrastructure, structures tend to be open. I suppose the IOF will adapt, but so far Hezbollah is making it look easy to target them.

Any concentration of 'Israeli' troops can be targetted at any time which has a fear multiplying affect. These guys are used to having air superiority and now they just don't.

One thing to note is that I've been watching these videos for a while, and at the beginning Hezbollah was not very good at flying, especially compared to what's happening in Ukraine, but they're getting better and better all the time. Above, in an earlier (April) video you can see that they miss a helicopter evac, but the troops scatter and are terrified nonetheless. This is the fear multiplier factor. With drones, especially fibre-optic drones that can't be jammed, no place is safe.

4/ Tactical deception

“Highly sensitive radars and intelligence equipment were targeted. Most notably, precision strikes were directed at the Merion Air Base, targeting artillery emplacements and rooms.”

By 'tactical deception' the Resistance means counter-intelligence, literally blowing up Iron Dome batteries (including radars) and taking out surveillance cameras. FPV drones do not carry heavy payloads (most around 7 kg), though reportedly some go up to 35 kg, making them armor piercing. In most cases, however, this isn't necessary. A precisely aimed blast can hit these systems right where it hurts, which you can see Hezb doing, over and over.

In terms of counter-intelligence, these drones also gather intelligence. Sometimes you see them go straight to a target, meaning that they've scoped it out before, but sometimes they just loiter around and look. As you'll see below, there's times when they seem to be just browsing before finding something to cook. And again, the drone commits suicide, the operator doesn't. This information can be used.

5/ Fire management

“Incendiary devices brought about a radical change in the dynamics of the front, as they imposed a field reality that led to a "complete operational paralysis" of the Israeli ground forces.”

FPV drones are not a force on their own, they're really a force multiplier. The Resistance uses them with existing missiles (like Kornets), as part of their usual infantry ambushes, and for both intelligence gathering and propaganda purposes. Drones can scout targets, hit targets, and also produce the videos we're watching here. They can be used as part of combined arms warfare in ways we're just finding out. Basically, the IEDs fly now.

Drones enable what the Resistance calls 'fire management', that is conserving their more expensive weapons and pricesless men, but lighting a fire under 'Israel's' ass nonetheless.

6/ Death Squares

“The fires redrew the battle map and reversed the pressure axes, and 3 sectors emerged as enemy killing zones. Any Israeli movement, whether on foot or in armor, was transformed into a "suicide mission." The soldiers were no longer able to assemble, and the command was forced to adopt a policy of "permanent concealment" and remained in the basements, which thwarted the ground combing and prevented the enemy from establishing effective control over a number of Lebanese border villages and towns.”

I include a general video here because this is a general point. 'Israel's' strategy is to use its air superiority to cover its infantry and armor and move into southern Lebanon. This already didn't work well because Hezbollah was giving them hell with infantry ambushes and missiles, but that was at great cost to Hezb. The missiles are expensive and they lost a lot of men. Hezbollah's strategy is to lure the IOF into 'death squares', and FPV drones let them do this without dying so much themselves, or exhausting their limited wealth.

FPV drones are cheap, the operators are far away, and they can be used to harry the IOF alone or as combined arms. Thus the Union Center poetically concludes,

The weapon, once a troublesome tactic, has become a decisive field deterrent. The Islamic resistance has proven its ability to neutralize Israel's formidable technology using precise, innovative, and cost-effective tools. This weapon has not only inflicted heavy losses on armored vehicles (the crown jewel of the army) and infantry, but has also been the decisive factor in establishing the equation of "active deterrence."

During the Israeli-style ceasefire attempts, the interceptor aircraft work to prevent the enemy from consolidating its control on the ground or imposing a new reality through freedom of movement on the ground, proving that the final word on the modern front is no longer written only by the roar of warplanes (F-35s, small burners). Those that hover in the upper atmosphere, with a buzzing sound, they [can carry out] "operations to impose control" to swoop down silently, unseen and unheard, yet they strike a fatal blow, reducing what the enemy calls a "war of survival" for his soldiers hiding in the sacred soil of the South.

The autotranslate is mangling it, but you can see the poetry in there, I'm sure it sounds better in Arabic. It really is poetic justice, that the final word on the modern front is no longer written by the roar of warplanes, but by in insistent, resistant drone.

Conclusions And Some Propaganda Videos

I won't lie, the conclusion is pretty good, it ties in the chess metaphors. But this is unnecessary, I hope you've got the vital information above. And the propaganda videos (one AI and one using falconry) are cool too, but publically available.