First-person view
Drone Warfare
Legislative Testimonies
FPV Drones Are the Logical Evolution of Hezbollah’s Warfighting Doctrine
Hezbollah’s new first-person view (FPV) drones provide the group with a maximum return on investment — earning their name from their cameras broadcasting footage of attacks until moment of impact. FPVs...
Policy Briefs
Israel Seizes Medieval Fortress in Renewed Effort To Defeat Hezbollah
After an interval of 26 years, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) has again captured Beaufort Castle, a 12th century fortress that occupies strategic high ground in the South Lebanon Security Zone that was...
Policy Briefs
Why Hezbollah’s Use of FPV Drones Against Israel Will Backfire
Hezbollah has begun using first-person view (FPV) drones against Israel, causing casualties among Israel Defense Forces (IDF) troops deployed along the Lebanese border. While the threat is growing, it...
Op-eds
Hezbollah Is Using FPV Drones Attached to Fiber Optic Cables That Are Impossible to Jam to Attack Israeli Soldiers
The Israeli Air Force struck a Hezbollah drone launch position in Lebanon on May 9. Hezbollah is using First Person View (FPV) drones attached to fiber optic cables to attack Israeli soldiers. Fiber-optic...
Op-eds
Hamas’s Quiet Reconstitution Efforts
All signs point to a Hamas resurgence. A new document from the IDF, reviewed by Israel’s Channel 13, assesses that the group is producing hundreds of explosives and surveilling IDF troops stationed...
Policy Briefs
Israeli forces face challenges as Hezbollah ramps up use of FPV drones
Hezbollah’s Al Ahed newspaper stated on April 29 that the group had “amassed a massive arsenal of” precision diving/attack drones, which it said had been modified “during the...
Op-eds
Hezbollah Likely Employing FPV Drones Against IDF
Video footage emerged Tuesday that appears to show Hezbollah attacking two Israeli Namer armored personnel carriers and a military truck with first-person view (FPV) drones. These attacks follow Hezbollah...
Policy Briefs
The Strait of Hormuz: The Military, Energy, and Economic Challenges
Media Calls
Operational gains against Iran continue, but threats to US forces persist
The United States, along with its Israeli partners, continues to make considerable progress toward its military objectives of removing Iran’s primary military means to threaten the region in the third...
Op-eds
Marking Four Years of Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine
Media Calls
Russian military launches recruitment drive for drone units
The Russian military has launched a recruitment drive to fill its Unmanned Systems Forces (USF), placing greater-than-usual emphasis on candidate quality. This campaign reflects the key role drones have...
Op-eds
Ukrainian intelligence details Russia’s new V2U autonomous loitering munition
Russia has developed a new loitering munition called the V2U that, according to Ukrainian reports, can use AI to navigate and strike targets and may have a swarm capability. If these reports are true,...
Op-eds
The Kursk gambit: What Ukraine’s boldest operation achieved — and failed to achieve
Ukrainian forces have retreated from most of the territory they once controlled in Russia’s Kursk Region. Although limited fighting on Russian soil continues, experts are already drawing conclusions...
Op-eds
Ukraine’s Belgorod incursion makes limited gains
Days after it withdrew from most of Russia’s Kursk region, Ukraine launched a cross-border incursion into neighboring Belgorod Oblast. The operation appears to be much more limited in scale and objectives...
Op-eds
Ukraine, Russia trade attacks in Kursk while Russia takes Kurakhove
Russia and Ukraine both launched sizable attacks in different parts of Kursk Oblast in recent days, battling over territory that Kyiv hopes to use as leverage in potential peace talks. In eastern Ukraine,...
Op-eds
Russia closes in on “fortress” city of Vuhledar
Ukraine’s yearslong defense of Vuhledar, a small city serving as a defensive stronghold in the Donetsk region, appears to be nearing its denouement. Russian advances on Vuhledar’s flanks have put it...
Op-eds
Ukraine’s new Unmanned Systems Forces takes shape
The Ukrainian military announced last week that it appointed Colonel Vadym Sukharevskyi as the commander of its inchoate Unmanned Systems Forces (USF). Sukharevskyi shared some interesting details...