Posted on 11/06/2010 10:38:37 AM PDT by Fennie
Hezbollah has obtained a complete aerial array from Iran, including an attack aircraft and several unmanned aerial vehicles, Channel 10 quoted the Kuwaiti newspaper Al-Siyasa on Saturday.
According to sources close to the Hezbollah military leadership, Hezbollah has at least three different kinds of UAVs and an Iranian aircraft that could reach long distances and attack specific targets on the ground.
The sources say that these are the "surprises" that Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah promised his organization would use in any future conflict with Israel.
Iran's Revolutionary Guard is responsible for the transfer of the aircraft to Hezbollah, sources say, and dozens of Iranian experts were allegedly sent to Lebanon to aid Hezbollah in building the aerial array and to train militants.
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Where is Hezbollah going to hide their air fleet where the Israelis can’t see them and hit them at will?
There will be a coup in Lebanon before the end of the year.
...or disguise their airport.
“Man, that is the longest, skinniest, Mosque I’ve ever seen... wait a minute...”
Hezbollah is not the only one with ‘surprises’. Israel has a few surprises of their own. Israel has the bigger, “BOO”.
Who among us thinks these will actually make it into Israeli airspace if they even get off the ground.
Hezbollah actually has succeeded in this. 2 years ago they sent UAV to Israel, it spent 20 minutes in Israel and came back. If it is surprise, it is extremely difficult to shoot them down soon enough. Israel has long border and distances are short.
UAV’s can be launched from almost anywhere, e.g. highway. Hezbollah has probably built few hidden hangars near highway or other suitable place.
I don’t recall hearing about that incident. Hopefully they recognized the risk there and addressed it appropriately.
I figured they would have a pretty tight clamp on their airspace borders with those idiots running around just the other side of the fence like that.
No bet! Those "attack aircraft" may as well be called "martyr mobiles"...
Well, what the heck, it's cheaper than the Israeli Air Force having to buy their own target drones...
Prediction: if they ever are foolish enough to try it, 100% losses to the H. attack aircraft to zero losses in Israeli fighter aircraft.
A Hezbollah representative in Lebanon’s parliament says new documents indicate that Israel is setting up 21 spy posts along the Lebanese border.
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