The IDF has adopted a Ukrainian battlefield innovation to counter Hezbollah's fiber-optic guided explosive drones: rotating wire fences.
The system uses barbed wire attached to iron poles with small electric motors that spin continuously. When a drone trailing a fiber-optic cable passes overhead, the rotating wire catches, wraps, and severs the cable — cutting the drone's communication link and causing it to crash.
The IDF's Ground Technology Brigade developed an Israeli version of the concept. The goal is for every battalion to deploy the system independently with quick, simple installation.
A senior IDF officer says the best defense against fiber-optic drones is a combination of all available solutions: nets draped over armored vehicles and outposts, wide deployment of various radar types with fused data from all sensors, the new rotating wire fence, FPV interceptor drones launched against Hezbollah drones, and shotguns along with frangible ammunition fired from soldiers' personal weapons.
A shipment of tens of thousands of 5.56mm frangible rounds for IDF personal weapons arrived in Israel yesterday. The rounds will be distributed to troops inside Lebanon within days.
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