Posted on 04/02/2017 12:28:14 PM PDT by Steely Tom
Massive VBIED (Vehicle-Borne IED) pulverizes an official headquarters of some type.
Link.
It looks like they targeted a police station. Watch closely and you can see that the building is basically obliterated.
Also, note how shockwave damages vehicles moving along the road at top of frame. Pieces of the vehicle at the left are knocked off, but it keeps moving. The vehicle closer to the explosion is disabled.
The headquarters building appears to shield the individuals who are running across the field, but the men who hunkered down behind the headquarters probably didn't fare so well.
Isn’t this terrorist propaganda?
It appears to be factual. There's no voiceover. I don't know who the combatants are, or which side is which.
Not sure how it's propaganda.
It can factual and still be propaganda.
Seems the drone was being flown to document their terrorism.
With the secondary explosion at the building, looks like some form of recoilless artillery round.
Probably an ISIS drone.
Not my field of study but chemically, it looks as though high pressure was reached very quickly, makes it look like before the explosion. I forget the terminology but "detonation" would be one of the labels. A lot of heat energy goes straight up like any old explosion - least resistance. The compression wave is caused by the rapid decomposition of fuel/oxidizer/gases and if "shaped" would be carried through the remainder of the event
I'd take a bet that these turds got a live round/warhead and cooked it off manually.
Also for reconnaissance plus command and control.
Anti-drone methods are needed. Detection and nullification.
How about telling us when this happened....
The date given in the video is 4 February 2017. It was posted to LiveLeak today.
Do it happened (maybe) when Mosul was coming under attack by Iraqi forces....
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