A residential building in Central Tel Aviv was struck by an Iranian UAV launched from Yemen, leading to at least one civilian casualty and many injured.
— Israel Defense Forces (@IDF) July 19, 2024
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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.
3 comments:
Those darn houthis, don't they know they're defeated!
This will be a big big deal!
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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