Vehicle based IED. Could also be a suicide bomber in a loaded vehicle.
DJI drones...
Cheap!
ISIL...really?
Who still uses the Obama/Brennan/MB approved acronym to describe these Sunni miscreants?
Soon there will be specialized drone killer drones, the fighters in the drone air force.
I have anticipated the mass use in combat of drone swarms. While commercially available drones will quickly be rendered useless in the battlefield, electronic modification kits will quickly become available to retrofit them. Vulnerabilities to major militaries include the logistics train of fuel trucks and supply trucks that must follow the main army. Those are not going to be protected by drone defenses at the same level as the front line troops, but without them the front line troops can’t fight. What good are your Abrams tanks when they can’t get fuel? A devastating attack against an air base far from the front lines can be carried out by a man on motor scooter wearing a backpack with a drone in it.
It’s going to take a small company to develop and deploy effective solutions as the large military suppliers I worked for scoffed at small money and small projects. If it wasn’t big enough to be listed on the main corporate assets sheet, they weren’t concerned with it. Also, big companies, are, by design, very slow. The longer a project lasts, the more money they make. Drone projects are the sort that need to be turned around in near real time.
I’m thinking the only solution is to create signal jamming electronics.......
“ISIL”
It’s Islamic F*cking State! not ISIL.
Bumping the informative article.
BTW, on Iraq elections...
“Ayad Allawi, head of The National Coalition and Iraq’s Vice President, called for the establishment of an emergency provisional government ahead of the elections result being announced. He said in a statement: “We call for new elections, asking the current government to remain in power and ensure conditions are met for an election that reflects the aspirations and wants of our fellow citizens to be held”...
Kurdish opposition parties demand second vote amid fraud accusations. Gunfire erupted in Iraq’s Kurdish city of Sulaimaniya...”
https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/958674/Iraq-election-2018-results-live-updates-polls-news-parliamentary-elections-ISIS
Not looking good.
“The X-MADIS features a Rada RPS-42 pMHR radar detection system, the Ascent camera system CM-202U EO/IR multi-sensor gimbal for identification, and the Sierra Nevada SkyCap counter drone Mode E-jammer. The directed energy weapon has a range of about two miles and can detect, identify, and destroy enemy drone swarms while the vehicle is traveling at a high rate of speed.”
Bibliography of drone warfare pubs:
http://www.oxfordbibliographies.com/view/document/obo-9780199743292/obo-9780199743292-0223.xml
Fact of the day: The US military now has more unmanned aircraft crew than manned aircraft crew.
ISIL, huh?
That’s a Leftist/Pro-Muslim name for a band of religious nuts, filthy murdering-terrorists and Left wing activists.
The L in this case stands for Levant, meaning Lebanon and Israel. The Crazy Muslims want to tie their mission into expelling the Jews, and the Left/Muslim alliance—notably Hussein Obama—joined them/
Drone vs drone
“It was an MQ-9 versus a drone with a heat-seeking air-to-air missile, and it was direct hit … during a test,” he said of the first-of-its-kind kill.
https://twitter.com/sommervilletv/status/1080724993238069249
Drone battle in Mosul from Iraqi army viewpoint.
https://www.army-technology.com/news/industry-news/us-army-grenade-net-drones/
Army patents “net grenade” for anti-drone defense.
Close air support UAV Company in field.