ISIS uses commercial drones to drop bombs

Now you will need the drone licence (like a gun licence, processes apply) to own a drone.
 
Well, they use off the shelf people as suicide bombers. I don't know why this is surprising.
 
the payload on these drones is very small, you not going to get much bang for your buck, also you can hear them a mile away, will be quite easy to shoot down
 
lived666 said:
the payload on these drones is very small, you not going to get much bang for your buck, also you can hear them a mile away, will be quite easy to shoot down
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Say what? I thought they were just making them into some kind of IED's. So like you buy one off amazon for you kid and when he starts it up, boom.
 
From the pics i've seen they use Phantom 3 styled drones. Which are slow and noisy, the SAA and Iraqi army shoot them down quite often. What they've been doing is using a tube about the diameter of a hand grenade and putting the hand grenade in it. They would then hover over the target and drop the hand grenade via some mechanism.

Hezbollah did it sometime last year too but already then you could see the potential noise problems. In the Hezbollah video the targets could hear the drone despite being >100m up and the dropping of the explosives were pretty inaccurate.

Azerbaijan had an interesting concept too, a flying wing that was essentially a warhead with wings and camera on the front. It would hover around for a while and when the controller spotted a target it would speed up and hit the target. No clue on the effectiveness.
www.liveleak.com/view?i=778_1459822379

I wonder if we'll see racing drones with hand grenades attached, they're super maneuverable and super fast.
https://youtu.be/DK4QTncFX2U?t=39s
 
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lived666 said:
the payload on these drones is very small, you not going to get much bang for your buck, also you can hear them a mile away, will be quite easy to shoot down
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I was just going to ask what type of carrying capacity an off the shelf Parrot could carry. I reckon the traditional Mr. Delivery guy works out cheaper in the long run but I have not done cost analysis (training, food, housing etc.) so I may be wrong.
 
lived666 said:
the payload on these drones is very small, you not going to get much bang for your buck, also you can hear them a mile away, will be quite easy to shoot down
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I am not sure about you but the ability to drop a grenade on a bunch of people in a crowded area seems very dangerous :sick:

Edit: and they don't blow up the drone itself
 
Wondered how long it would take them to do this. Pretty easy to set waypoints on a drone. Get it to fly into a packed stadium
 
Now that they have proven the technology, how long will it take before they drop a grenade into a crowded Berlin marketplace?
 
Who the hell is selling drones to Isis? Surely they shouldn't just be able to to the local hobby shop in downtown Isis controlled Mosul? Or have Amazon deliver a few packages to occupied Syria?
 
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