Friday, July 19, 2024

Drone Strike Near U.S. Embassy Branch Office Tel Aviv, EBO Escaped Damage


You've no doubt seen the news reports by now. The most reliable reports indicate the aerial vehicle was an enhanced (longer range) Iranian-made drone, and it was launched from Yemen. The drone was not detected by Israeli warning systems, it struck a good 400 feet from the EBO, killing one resident and injuring several others.

Bottom line: unmanned aerial vehicles are the new conventional weapon, they are largely impractical to defeat, and a responsible nation will ensure that its diplomats have a reasonable degree of protection against them through emergency preparedness, training and orientation of its personnel, and by hardening its diplomatic premises to the extent feasible. 

  
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3 comments:

  1. JamesJuly 19, 2024 at 12:55 PM

    Those darn houthis, don't they know they're defeated!

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  2. JamesJuly 20, 2024 at 5:33 AM

    This will be a big big deal!

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  3. TSBJuly 20, 2024 at 6:04 AM

    These drones are truly the next big thing in armed conflicts. Weirdly, they seem to escape the usual consequences that follow from acts of war. A state - Iran or Yemen, say - can openly launch an attack from their territory into the territory of another state and yet it does *not* result in a war, just a little retaliation maybe.

    We'll see much, much, more of this to come.

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