Secret Hezbollah Drone Airstrip Discovered In Lebanon

Satellite imagery of the Hizbullah airstrip in northeast Lebanon taken on 19 June 2014. (Google / CNES / Astrium / IHS)

IHS Jane's 360: Hizbullah airstrip revealed

Lebanon's militant Shia group, Hizbullah, has constructed an airstrip in the northern Bekaa Valley for its unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), an analysis of satellite images suggests.

Located in a remote and sparsely populated area 10 km south of the town of Hermel and 18 km west of the Syrian border, the airstrip was built sometime between 27 February 2013 and 19 June 2014, according to imagery that recently became publicly available on Google Earth.

It consists of a single unpaved strip with a length of 670 m and width of 20 m. Material has been excavated from a nearby quarry to build up the northern end of the strip so that it is level. It is built over a shorter strip that had been in existence since at least 2010.

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