"Taliban uses drones to film attacks in Afghanistan" Topic
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| Tango01 | 24 Oct 2016 2:40 p.m. PST |
"Government official plays down significance of release of drone video which purportedly shows Taliban attack in Helmand. The Afghan Taliban has uploaded a drone footage showing a suicide bomber driving into a police base and blowing it up in the southern Helmand province. The fighters say the footage proves that they can now deploy drones as an "addition to their sophisticated possessions of advanced technologies". The 23-minute-long video, which begins with a self-proclaimed suicide bomber speaking in front of an explosives-rigged Humvee, was released on Saturday appears to be authentic, according to the Afghan defence ministry…"
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 Legion 4  | 26 Oct 2016 8:07 a.m. PST |
Well they have cell phones, etc. too … so … not really a surprise. |
| mashrewba | 26 Oct 2016 10:49 a.m. PST |
I don't think 'deploying' drones you can get on Amazon equates to one of these lol
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| Legion 4 | 26 Oct 2016 4:16 p.m. PST |
No but like we recently saw in Iraq. Daesh, armed a drone with C4(?). Landed it on a Kurd(?) structure and blew up. Killing some locals, and IIRC, 3 French Paras "advising & training " … |
| Deadles | 26 Oct 2016 5:31 p.m. PST |
Drones really are revolutionising warfare – cheap aerial reconnaissance at platoon level! There's been extensive useage of drones in Syria, Libya and Ukraine as well. |
| Legion 4 | 27 Oct 2016 10:27 a.m. PST |
All the cool kids are doing it ! |
| mashrewba | 27 Oct 2016 3:08 p.m. PST |
I can imagine a recon drone rising out of your position wouldn't be a great idea… |
| Legion 4 | 27 Oct 2016 3:47 p.m. PST |
No … that would be considered "poor field craft" …  |
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