Illustrative image. (The Israeli Defense Forces)
Hezbollah on March 22 released video footage showing an Israeli Hermes 450 combat drone getting shot down over Lebanon by its fighters, marking the first such incident since the group resumed military operations against Israel following the start of the war on its ally and main backer, Iran.
The drone was shot down over the town of Bint Jbeil in southern Lebanon, a well known stronghold of Hezbollah, on March 16.
Hezbollah fighters were apparently tracking the drone using regular daytime cameras, in addition to an infrared imager. The footage suggests that they used an Iranian-made Misagh-1 man-portable air defense system (MANPADS) to shoot down the drone. This type of systems was spotted with the group before.
The Misagh-1 is believed to be a variant or reverse-engineered clone of the Chinese-made QW-1 MANPADS. The missile, which is guided by passive infrared homing, has an engagement range of six kilometers with a flight ceiling of up to five kilometers.
The Hermes 450 is a medium-sized multi-payload drone designed by Israeli defense company Elbit for tactical long-endurance missions.
The drone, which reportedly cost more than $2 million, has an endurance of over 20 hours, with a primary mission of reconnaissance, surveillance, combat and communications relay. Payload options include electro-optical/infrared sensors, communications and electronic intelligence, synthetic-aperture radar/ground-moving target indication, electronic warfare, and hyperspectral sensors.
The footage released by Hezbollah shows the Hermes 450 targeted over Bint Jbeil breaking into burning pieces as it fell from the sky.
In a statement released on the day it was shot down, the group said that Israeli strikes hit the wreckage which fell between Bint Jbeil and the nearby town of Aitaroun.
Hezbollah shot down multiple Israeli combat drones during the previous confrontation. It was thought, however, that the group lost its air defense capabilities afterwards. Now, it is clear that the group is still in possession of some air defense systems, at least MANPADS.
These capabilities will pose a serious threat to the Israeli military which is currently preparing to expand ground operations in southern Lebanon.
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good shot old chap
well done hezbollah, clearing the skies from herpes :)
hahaha hahaha oh so funny meanwhile 130 of irans naval vessels are destroyed or sunk, their air force is non exist and and you act as if one lucky strike s significant in response hahaha hahaha
tel aviv is rubble
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pot luck most likely
make no mistake, it is written. the 47th titere will vanquish nebuchadnezzar on the 47th year of the eslamic revulution.
right, 52 days from now you will be pumping jenny holm in it’s piehole.
nono i’m not into that. i only keep everything below the waste line honey.
nono en la cara no.👌
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“hermes” is code for transbender zionist, 50% of their population. thats why we sell our products, we have no clue what these gender benders even do. modified, plasticized freaks.
hey hermes it seems you have seen grown men naked, like watching gladiator movies and you have been in a turkish prison. i suppository that’s why you now need your psiopends.🤼
israel is evicting hezbollah anti reclaiming its rightful land in lebanon…heheheh
the jooz are guaranteed a very warm welcome in lebanon from now on.
its time ratface happy merchant squaters get evicted from palestine and send back to the pale of settlement were they originally came from or better deported to the jewish oblast in the far east. you rat faces dont belong in palestine and we dont want you in europe either. its best to put you professional victims somewhere where you cant bully the native population. i think there are places in siberia were currently no one lives we can make into new israel.
all those strikes and only shot down 1 drone? lmfao
as if it’s newsworthy sf clutching at straws.
https://hawarnews.com/ar/139107 women will have the greatest freedom and rights when they have a stronger sharia than in afghanistan. you don’t leave the house anymore, your daughters won’t be educated anymore. perhaps there will be a forced mobilization of alawite traitors by hts. hts will use them as cannon fodder for an attack on lebanon. what the alawites and pussians did to hezbollah and iran would be perfectly fine if nato bombed moscow and hts forcibly mobilized the alawites.
since they betrayed hezbollah, it would make sense for hts to send them to fight hezbollah. the who refused would be killed on the spot by hts. their families too and burned down their homes. for what they did in december 2024, it would be just as well. hts would say: “if you surrender to hezbollah, we will find your home and kill your family!” so these people would finally have exactly the freedom they deserve.
against jesus and against allah with the sign of genghis khan. to fight and die for israel. that would probably eliminate the possibility of their being reborn. because it is disgusting enough that they probably waste all options except eternal damnation. both in this world and the next. no salvation of soul or body. only death and eternal damnation. if they say no, hts kills their families in front of them and then them. for traitors like them, this is the only appropriate punishment.
we all know that alawites went to hezbollah funerals in beirut and then sent information to israel. hezbollah members died for them when saa spied for israel. i hope that hts will forcibly mobilize all alawites and put them in the front lines to fight hezbollah and that not one of them will return alive. i also hope that nato will kill all the alawites who fled to moscow with missiles inside pussia.
their quicker than tanks hard time trying to figure out how far to lead them
hezbollah are fools because they don’t find bashar al-assad and his brother and the other traitors in moscow and kill all these people who destroyed syria, iran and hezbollah with their cowardice.
these people will escape justice. i have some satisfaction because the kurds are slowly realizing that in five to ten years their women will be left without education and jobs like in afghanistan.
https://hawarnews.com/ar/139107
genghis khan’s treatment of women should be better than kurdish and alawite women deserve. by the way, kurdish and alawite women should consider hts and isis as sterilized prostitutes. certainly not as wives and mothers of their children. but as sterilized prostitutes who will never give birth to children. i hope the day comes when the russians will remove putin and put in place someone who will send the traitor bashar al-assad and his traitorous sons and officers to the front lines in ukr
once all usa the coalition super power floating bases which their call aircraft careers are sink then that will be the end of trump arogants
entirely humiliated by superior russians now iran pumps our americunt anuz w muslim jizz
the jews are flying herpes around. the herpes colony on the ground wasn’t enough
the manpad cost a tenth the cost of the drone.