These pictures, posted on the Facebook page of the Kurdish YPG group fighting in Syria, are claimed to show a small drone packed with explosives used for an attack by ISIS. The drones have been tentatively identified as Skywalker X7 or X8, a hobby drone sold in kit form on the internet for $179. While these claims cannot be verified, they follow a year in which ISIS has used more and more drones for reconnaissance and intelligence gathering.
More details in this piece I wrote for Popular Mechanics magazine .
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