After scoring a crushing victory over Hezbollah in 2024, Israel is finding its ongoing campaign in Lebanon much more difficult, in large part due to its adoption of the war in Ukraine’s deadliest innovation.

After suffering embarrassing losses against Israel in 2024, Hezbollah sought to rearm and regroup quickly as it awaited the inevitable next war with Israel. As part of this rearmament, it invested heavily in first-person-view drones, a quadrocopter with an explosive attached that can be guided directly into a target. The drones have been used by Hezbollah in a limited capacity beginning in September 2024, but the current war has seen their use expanded significantly.