ISIS using drones like swarms of bees to disrupt Mosul fight – PB/TK
ISIS drones disrupt U.S.-backed Iraqis’ fight for Mosul – By CBS News February 25, 2017
SOUTH OF MOSUL, Iraq — On the outskirts of Mosul, Iraqi forces backed by the U.S. military are slowly taking ground from the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, or ISIS.
This past week, they retook the airport and started pushing deeper into Iraq’s second largest city.
Day Seven of the battle for western Mosul and the Iraqis — by their own account — are moving very slowly. Their operations are being disrupted by ISIS drones, sometimes operating in swarms of three to five. They are off-the-shelf quadrocopters, which drop hand grenades or artillery shells, and in a video released by ISIS appear to score a direct hit on an Iraqi armored personnel carrier
Hundreds of civilians from the city escaped into the surrounding desert, but an estimated 700,000 remained trapped inside their homes.
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