Via McClatchy:
“This was a crude device, but it was a drone with all the capabilities that unmanned aerial crafts offer, and for that reason it is worrying,” an Israeli military official told McClatchy under the condition that he not be identified because he was not authorized to discuss sensitive information with a reporter. Hezbollah drone may have been sent to monitor Israel’s nuclear facility at Dimona | McClatchy
The issue to consider here is not the politics of the situation but the affordability of the technology. Notice it’s a non-state entity that can afford unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). This tells us we can see proliferation in the future, not only for military uses, but also for other uses. For example, environmental groups can fly sensor-equipped UAVs over industrial areas to check on pollution.
