Illustrative Image: Israeli Hermes-450 UAVs operating over Beirut, each armed with two missiles
On September 15th, Hezbollah reported that its fighters shot down an Israeli Hermes 450 reconnaissance UAV. The UAV was shot down over southern Lebanon after it violated the country’s airspace.
Presumably, the strike was carried out by an Iranian-made anti-aircraft missile known as Product 358.
The Hermes 450 drone, which is made by Israel’s Elbit company, has an endurance of over 20 hours. Its primary mission is reconnaissance, surveillance and communications relay. However, it can also carry up to four missiles for offensive operations.
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This is not the first Israeli medium altitude long endurance UAV to be shot down in Lebanon during the ongoing escalation. Earlier in April, Hezbollah fighters managed to shoot down an advanced Hermes 900 Israeli drone over Lebanese territory. With a wingspan of 15 meters, Hermes 900 is the second-largest reconnaissance drone in the Israeli air force. It was designed by Israel’s Elbit to carry out reconnaissance, surveillance, communications relay and attack missions. A single drone of this model could cost more than $80 millions. LINK
sorry for us taxpayers slaves
they will have to buy a new one for israel so they can continue to wipe out arabs from palestine.
a second herpes 450 was downed today (annouced 1h ago by hezbollah)
well done keep goin
senile biden has made bibi the chicken netanyahu eat his own words. bibi has promised not to attack irans oil & nuclear facilities. it must be true since oil prices have tumbled about 11% recently, stocks are hovering around all time highs & bitcoin went from around 59,000 to about 66,000. obviously israel & the us fear iran. i wish biden would grow a backbone & told bibi the baby killer netanyahu to also stop killing defenseless women & children in the ruins of gaza
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they should make an acoustic homing version of object 358. for taking down choppers evacuating wounded war criminals and other slow flying stuff.
nothing to worry israel has many more courtesy of uncle sam.
there needs to be some correction in the article. it is on the 15 of october and not september it got shot down. also the max speed can not be 1776 km/h it’s 176 km/h. anyway it is a great hit by the hezbollah. hopefully next time a f-16 or f-15 or even better a f-35 over priced fighter.
indian times today claimed that, the recent terror attact in israel, was maded by erdogan’s order via turkish secret service mit s help. the terrorists gets explosive education in turkey and sended back to israel. people also talks that erdogan’s wife is arab and thats why erdogan hate israel and helping the arab terrorists. turkey as a nato member may be put outside if trump wins, and turkey s place can be fill with israel.
get us a few f35s and that will be the end of the jews in palestine!