Hezbollah scored its first confirmed Merkava tank kill with a first-person view drone, cementing the danger the new weapon poses to the Israeli military.
On Friday, Hezbollah published a video showing an FPV drone impacting a Merkava tank. Though the group has posted several such videos beginning in March, Friday was the first that included follow-up footage from a nearby recon drone, showing the tank’s ammunition detonating and blowing up the vehicle. Though Hezbollah has claimed to have destroyed several Merkava tanks with FPV drones in the past, this is the first confirmed example with evidence.
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