ISIS use drones to drop grenades on Iraq forces in Battle of Mosul's desperate last stand Islamic State fighters are using drones to drop individual grenades on Iraqi forces . The improvised weapons consist of a plastic tube attached to a camera drone.
The devices have been used in the last desperate stage of the battle for the former ISIS stronghold of Mosul . Pictures of the weapons were taken by former US Army special forces officer Mitch Utterback, who was in the country as a journalist.
Last week a US Army commander said ISIS fighters were using such weapons as they tried to avoid losing control of the city. Read More. Drones are being used to bomb Iraqi forces (Photo: Getty)Col Brett Sylvia said: “It’s not as if it is a large, armed unmanned aerial vehicle that is dropping munitions from the wings - but literally, a very small quadcopter that drops a small munition in a somewhat imprecise manner.”Islamic State has previously used drones to record footage for propaganda videos and for aerial surveillance. In October, two Kurdish Peshmerga fighters were killed in northern Iraq when a modified drone exploded. Many off- the- shelf drones can fly for up to half an hour, have a range of several miles and are affordable for militant groups. Video Loading. Video Unavailable. The video will start in 8.
Cancel. Justin Bronk, a research fellow at the UK military think tank Rusi, said: “The group is known for turning things they can get hold of into weapons.“While it shows innovation, the main threat from drones is far and away the ability to hover a camera drone and adjust aim of more direct weapons.”Drones can be difficult to shoot down, but new weapons are being developed to tackle them. Some aim to disable to devices by blocking the radio signals they require to be controlled. Iraqi forces patrol the Al- Intisar area in eastern Mosul (Photo: Getty)Meanwhile it is feared ISIS chiefs will leave behind an army of brainwashed and dangerous children when they are finally driven out of Mosul. The youngsters have been fed a syllabus of hate during the regime’s occupation of Iraq’s second largest city. And as well as being taught the extreme views of Muslim Sharia law, they have also been taught how to become terrorists and suicide bombers.
Online streaming The Rainbow Bridge Motel in english with english subtitles in 1280 21:9. Iraqi and Kurdish forces are now in control of huge swathes of the city. But they are fearful for the long- term future of Mosul with so many children indoctrinated by ISIS.
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An Iraqi forces member stands next to a cluster bomb (Photo: Getty)The Iraqi High Commission for Human Rights is calling on help from the UN to save a generation of children from religious extremism. Jawad al- Shamri, the commission’s media director, said in a statement that IS began two years earlier to.