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Hezbollah commander unveils new weapon

ISNA - Iranian Students' News Agency

Wed / 28 February 2024 / 10:49

The commander of Hezbollah's anti-armored munitions unit reveals a new NLOS weapon developed by the Resistance in the face of the Israeli occupation.

Tehran -ISNA- Since the start of the confrontations on the Lebanese-Palestinian border area on October 8, there have been talks within Israel about the "anti-armor weapons" possessed by Hezbollah, with there being grave concerns about the Resistance's capabilities.

Israeli media, the political and military spheres, and much more, have expressed great fear of the development of the capabilities of the Islamic resistance in Lebanon, which has become "a champion in missile sniping."

Anti-armor missiles are one of the many specialties of the Islamic resistance in Lebanon, and the status quo of the battlefield in the current limited confrontation has made this weapon take the lead at this stage.

A commander in Hezbollah's anti-armor unit told Al Mayadeen in an exclusive interview that the Islamic resistance in Lebanon is a large group with numerous divisions, and each division has its own battle system.

In this operation, Hezbollah's anti-armor capabilities had the lion's share in the fighting due to the nature of the mission, but the rest of the divisions, each of which had their own sets of skills, did not all-out participate in the battle and only did so in a limited manner. Had they fully participated, the commander said, the Israeli occupation "would have seen things it would have never expected."

The official continued by saying that the advantages that made anti-armor the star of this battle are the advantages it enjoys, namely "flexibility, effectiveness and simplicity." Flexibility "qualifies it to work in this battle against threats and shelling," while simplicity relates to "the simplicity of training and use."

As for effectiveness, the anti-armor units confront the occupation's forces who use tanks and armored personnel carriers, as it "has the effectiveness to work against all enemy targets."

Al Mayadeen's political and Lebanese affairs analyst, Abbas Fneish, confirmed when talking about the operations carried out by the resistance since October 8 that the escalation was gradual.

During the first two weeks, "all the targets were clear on the surface, as the resistance targeted tanks, personnel, and positions." Most of these targets were hit with anti-armor weapons, he clarified.

Later, the resistance began to pursue the occupation, as it went deeper and closer to the border area and hid in the groves and newly created points, Fneish added. The developments and results themselves speak for the effectiveness of the anti-armor unit, with dozens of destroyed Israeli tanks and military sites and other reinforcements where Israeli soldiers are sheltering themselves.

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