An Inside Look At An Islamic State Drone Workshop


Gizmodo: This is What an ISIS Drone Workshop Looks Like

The Islamic State has increasingly used drones and other robotic IEDs against American, Iraqi, and civilian targets in Iraq. And as the Coalition fights its way through Mosul, troops are discovering workshops filled with crude but deadly robotics used to bomb people sometimes dozens of times per day.

Getty Images just published photos of an ISIS factory that’s churning out robotic death machines, including aerial drones and four-wheeled robotic bombs. The photos give us a look at the new ways in which ISIS robots are being churned out to spread death and destruction.

While ISIS has sometimes been retrofitting hobby drones with explosives, they’ve also been building drones from scratch using metal pipes, wooden propellors, and repurposed small engines.

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Update: ISIS Using Drones Rigged With Munitions To Attack Advancing Forces In Raqqa (Newsweek).

WNU Editor: Yup .... expects these drone tactics pioneered by the Islamic State to be duplicated elsewhere .... All the Terrifying Ways ISIS Is Dangerous (Hint: Others Will Use Their Tactics) (Dave Majumdar, National Interest).



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