Amid the increasing use of drones by Hezbollah <\/b> against Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) forces in southern Lebanon, the Benjamin Netanyahu <\/b>announced the launch of a special program to counter the threat.<\/p>\n
“A few weeks ago, I ordered the creation of a special program aimed at countering the threat from drones,” he said in a video message, adding that “already today I will be presented with a progress report on the issue.”<\/p>\n
“It will take time, but we are on it,” he said, according to the Times of Israel.<\/p>\n
The Israeli prime minister stressed that the new supplies will aim to strengthen the defense capabilities<\/strong> and autonomy<\/strong> of the country.<\/p>\n “We are procuring two squadrons of advanced aircraft, the F-35 and F-15IA,” he noted, adding: “These aircraft reinforce Israel’s overwhelming air superiority, a superiority that was demonstrated during Operation Rising Lion and now during Operation Roaring Lion.”<\/p>\n At the same time, he sent a clear message about the operational capabilities of the Israeli air force: “Our pilots can reach anywhere in Iran’s skies and are ready to do so if necessary.”<\/p>\n Referring to defensive self-sufficiency<\/strong>, he noted: “I have ordered investments in domestic production capabilities in the ammunition sector.”<\/p>\n Note that Israel plans to increase its defense budget<\/strong> by 350 billion shekels over the next decade, with a key goal of developing domestic production.<\/p>\n Finally, Netanyahu spoke of developing “innovative Israeli-built aircraft” that “will completely change the landscape,” without specifying whether they would be manned or unmanned.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Amid Hezbollah’s increasing use of drones against Israeli Defence Forces (IDF) forces in southern Lebanon, Benjamin Netanyahu …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3732,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3731","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3731","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3731"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3731\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3732"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}