The Iraqi military apparently has gotten fed up with ISIS using hobby drones to drop grenades or IEDs on their forces and have decided to return the favor.
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Iraq’s military has turned the tables on the Islamic State’s drone tactics by improvising its own unmanned aircraft to drop grenades and other small munitions on the militants in the key battle for Mosul, U.S. officials say.
Earlier this year Mosul became a proving ground for the emerging threat of cheap drones used by terror groups. The militants were using the small unmanned aircraft for both attacks and surveillance.
At the peak in February, the Islamic State deployed 10 to 15 drones a day against Iraqi security forces as they fought to clear militants from Mosul, said Air Force Col. John Dorrian, a military spokesman in Baghdad. – USA Today
ISIS was using commercially available hobby drones and converting them to carry different types of weapons potentially making them lethal. The US military took the ISIS drone threat seriously when it appeared and has effectively neutralized it according to reports from Iraq.
Featured image of a drone in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul carrying two grenades flying in a test flight by Iraqi forces which aim to use it against Islamic State militants by Aris Messinis, AFP/Getty Images
