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New threat for Israelis: drones guided via consumer mobile networks
Monitoring fiber-optic drones? There’s a greater threat that could strike anywhere
David Baron, Israel Hayom
Last week, Hezbollah’s fiber-optic drones turned into a deadly threat in southern Lebanon, killing two soldiers and one civilian.
The Israeli military has admitted that it currently has no effective solution for this.
But a much greater threat is on the horizon: “Drone guidance via mobile networks.”
This technology enables operations from unlimited ranges with unparalleled precision; unlike in the past when radio guidance was limited, now by installing a modem and a local SIM card on the drone, the operator can receive live, high-quality video.
The danger isn’t just crossing the border. A more alarming scenario involves the activation of drones that have already been deployed deep within the country. All it takes is for a collaborator in Tel Aviv to build a drone with a 3D printer and install a SIM card on it so that operators in Tehran can launch it for reconnaissance or targeted assassination missions.
Ukraine’s “Spider’s Web” operations against Russian cruise missile bases thousands of kilometers deep have confirmed the reality of this threat. In these operations, 117 drones that had been pre-positioned in containers near the targets, guided by operators off-site, inflicted $2 billion in damage and rendered Russia’s strategic depth meaningless.
A former senior Israeli security official asserts that this paradigm shift has transformed drones from a tactical tool into a strategic threat. Because the threat no longer comes from outside the borders, but can already be present within the country.
Identifying a specific operator among millions of mobile network subscribers is practically impossible.
Experts believe that Iran certainly possesses this technology and that transferring it to Hezbollah would not be difficult.
The main problem is the lack of a defensive solution. Unlike border drones, there are no radars to cover the low-altitude airspace within cities. Shutting down the mobile network is also not feasible in democracies and has not been successful in Russia either.
Israeli experts warn that the military is taking this “precision strike” very seriously and fears that the system will suffer “failures of imagination” and overlook this strategic threat as it unfolds, just as it did prior to October 7. This technology empowers non-state actors with significant capabilities.
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