PM: IDF combating drones for six years, unlimited budget team formed for Hezbollah's FPV threat

PM: IDF combating drones for six years, unlimited budget team formed for Hezbollah's FPV threat

Netanyahu told the cabinet that the IDF and Defense Ministry had done “a great deal over the years,” thwarting “many hundreds, if not thousands, including UAVs."

IDF Faces Critical Timeline to Field Solutions Against Hezbollah’s Fiber-Optic Drones

‘Twenty soccer fields’ of mesh nets due to be used to protect Israeli troops from lethal threat. ( May 15, 2026 / JNS )  The Israeli defense establishment is operating an accelerated emergency timeline to field effective countermeasures against a new and lethal aerial threat in Southern Lebanon. Initial solutions to shooting down First-Person View (FPV) fiberoptic drones could appear in a matter of weeks to months. On Thursday, an IDF official s…