Hezbollah has twice flown an unmanned aerial drone over Israel, but where did the organization get it?

Via Friday-Lunch-Club

NBC/ here

"... U.S. and Israeli intelligence sources tell NBC News that Hezbollah actually obtained the UAVs from Iran and that Iranian soldiers are stationed just across the border to help operate them.

At an airshow in Iran earlier this year, an aviation official showed off Iran's UAVs to NBC News."When you turn on the engine, it takes off and flies," Abbas Fallah of Iran Aircraft Manufacturing told us. "It's so easy!"

We asked Fallah if the UAV was a "weapon of mass destruction."

"I don't think so!" he laughed.

Iranian officials have both taken credit for supplying the UAVs to Hezbollah and denied it... (sort of "Drone Ambiguity", similar to Israel's policies...)

U.S. and Israeli intelligence believes Iran gave Hezbollah a half-dozen UAVs which feed live video and have sophisticated guidance systems....... "The danger is that Hezbollah will now have the capability to inflict greater damage on Israel by more precise targeting," says Joseph Cirincione, a weapons expert at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. "Israel cannot simply take those attacks."

Already Israel's vastly superior military is embarrassed that a terror group's little unmanned spy plane has been able to penetrate Israeli airspace — twice.

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