S8 Ep825: Preview for Later Today: Guest David Daoud. Daoud analyzes how Hezbollah utilizes inexpensive FPV and fiber optic drones to bypass Israel's advanced technological defenses. He notes the IDF currently lacks effective responses to these low-cost, under-the-
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🗓️ 4 May 2026
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Preview for Later Today: Guest David Daoud. Daoud analyzes how Hezbollah utilizes inexpensive FPV and fiber optic drones to bypass Israel's advanced technological defenses. He notes the IDF currently lacks effective responses to these low-cost, under-the-radar warfare tactics. 1/3
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| 0:00.0 | This is John Batchel. Drones from Lazare Berman's column in the Times of Israel. |
| 0:07.9 | Years after drone warfare transformed other battlefields, the IDFs seems caught off guard by Hezbollah's |
| 0:13.9 | effective use of first-person and fiber-optic UAVs, leaving troops in southern Lebanon exposed yet again. |
| 0:21.3 | Here's David Diyud of the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies, who fought in the 06 |
| 0:26.9 | struggle in Lebanon, now commenting on the drone warfare, cheap drone warfare, inexpensive, |
| 0:36.0 | effective, used by Hezbollah against the IDF. |
| 0:40.1 | More of this tonight. |
| 0:41.6 | It's, you know, the Israelis are at, you know, in some ways at the forefront of that. |
| 0:48.2 | They are at the cutting edge of that. |
| 0:49.3 | They have a whole fleet of drones that, you know, have different purposes, |
| 0:56.3 | and they export them, and even in the Azerbaijan and Armenia conflict, right? |
| 1:00.4 | They're a peace supplier to Azerbaijan, much to the chagrin of the Armenians. |
| 1:07.2 | But when it comes to the FPVs, like you said, this is something that has still not, there's no answer to it. |
| 1:16.7 | I mean, here's the way these actors operate. |
| 1:19.0 | And we see the Ukrainians operating this way with the Russians. |
| 1:21.6 | If you can't match your folk conventionally and you don't have the budget like the Ukrainians don, and like Hezbollah doesn't, to, you know, the IDF has spent decades becoming this technological superpower. |
| 1:38.6 | And it very much relies a lot on high technology, on advanced technology in warfare. |
| 2:02.3 | Hezbollah obviously doesn't have the R&D capabilities. It doesn't have the money to match that. So what do you do? You develop a method that kind of flies under the radar, right? So we saw this, by the way, with Hezbollah using anti-tank guided missiles on the border as snipers. And this is something that, you know, it's a cheap method. |
| 2:09.0 | It's a, you know, a low-tech method, and Iron Dome, and all these billions of dollars that Israel has invested in missile defense ineffective. |
| 2:13.9 | And it's the same thing with these drones. |
| 2:15.7 | It's how do you find the, you know, |
| 2:17.5 | the figurative chink in the armor of this technological superpower |
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