Report: Iran gave Hezbollah UAVs, attack aircraft
Report: Iran gave Hezbollah UAVs, attack aircraft – Haaretz Daily Newspaper | Israel News.
Hezbollah has obtained a complete aerial array from Iran, including an attack aircraft and several unmanned aerial vehicles, Channel 10 quoted the Kuwaiti newspaper Al-Siyasa on Saturday.
According to sources close to the Hezbollah military leadership, Hezbollah has at least three different kinds of UAVs and an Iranian aircraft that could reach long distances and attack specific targets on the ground.
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Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah, right, meets with Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, left, at the Iranian Embassy in Beirut, Lebanon, Thursday, Oct. 14, 2010. |
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The sources say that these are the “surprises” that Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah promised his organization would use in any future conflict with Israel.
Iran’s Revolutionary Guard is responsible for the transfer of the aircraft to Hezbollah, sources say, and dozens of Iranian experts were allegedly sent to Lebanon to aid Hezbollah in building the aerial array and to train militants.
According to the report, Tehran allocated a very high budget for the project.
Western sources responded to the report, saying that they fear the aircraft could be an “important card” in a possible future conflict between Israel and Hezbollah.
WarSclerotic 
November 6, 2010 at 11:00 PM
Obviously the Iranian “plane ” is unmanned like the uav they gave Hezbollah.
If Hezbollah wants to know what it is to go against an Israeli pilot then ask the syrian pilots who were shot down not with air to air missles but with Israeli aircraft machine guns. Simple and totally reliant on flying and aiming skills and nerves of steel when facing Syrian air to air missles.
Sorry boys the Bull S… ends when the wheels leave the ground and the aircraft flies.
November 7, 2010 at 7:21 AM
WITH THE INTEL ON IRANS MILITARY AND THEIR NUCLEAR PROGRAMS SO COMPROMISED THE IRANIAN MILITARY SYSTEM IS REALLY COUNTING ON LEBANESE AND SYRIAN FORCES TO DO THE JOBS FOR THEM AND THE FAILURES TO BE A REAL-TIME THREAT TO THE WEST HAS SURE DIED DOWN LATELY TOO. IF IRAN HAS TRULY MANUFACTURED THESE UAV`S IN LEBANON THE HIZBOLLAH FORCES WILL PROBABLY BE THE ONES TO FLY THEM TOO. THESE MILITARY OPERATIONS ARE REALLY DEPENDENT ON SOMEONES MILITARY SATELITE SYSTEMS AND MAY BE JUST AS VULNERABLE AS WAS IRAN AND SYRIA TOO.