The Iraqi government uses the Chinese UAV to throw gun grenades into IS

The Iraqi government uses the Chinese UAV to throw gun grenades into IS

The Iraqi government armed forces have also begun to use commercial unmanned aerial vehicles on the battlefield. Extreme organization "Islamic country" (IS) said in a video released on the 8th of this month that they shot down three Iraqi government police forces to control the Xinjiang (DJI) UAV latitude and longitude M100. A bomb mounted with a badminton as a stabilizer at the rear is mounted on a UFO pan / tilt and controlled by a simple remote control. It is reported that the latitude and longitude M100 is a civilian professional four-axis unmanned aerial vehicles, expensive price.
The Iraqi government uses the Chinese UAV to throw gun grenades into IS
IS on display by their shot down IFP-based DJI UAV, can be seen from the photo, the Iraqi police do UAV bombs than do a lot of intentions to do.
In January of this year, IS's militants used a new tactic in Mosul, using a civilian DJI unmanned aerial vehicle to throw grenade-sized explosives, which the observer had reported. IS is the cheapest "wizard" series of four-axis unmanned aerial vehicles in the DJI product line. The basic version is priced at $ 249 in the United States. The bombs are mostly grenades or grenades, and there are more simple explosives The
The Iraqi government uses the Chinese UAV to throw gun grenades into IS
In January, the Iraqi government forces showed that they were shot down with the explosive hijacking device IS UAV, you can see compared to IFP used, IS modified DJI obviously more humble.
In the face of this situation, while the efforts to shoot down the IS UAV at the same time, the Iraqi Federal Police (IFP) began to "teeth", also use DJI's UAV to throw bombs. However, compared to IS using the cheapest "wizard", IFP is selected DJI product line in the professional level of four-axis unmanned aerial vehicles: latitude and longitude M100, the UAV in the United States based on the price of $ 3299, and the price Almost no accessories, to install the function need another money. Only to the basic price to calculate, M100 and "Wizard" UAV price gap of 13 times.
The Iraqi government uses the Chinese UAV to throw gun grenades into IS
DJI official website on the introduction of the latitude and longitude M100, which is a professional-oriented civilian four-axis unmanned aerial vehicle platform, expensive, the domestic base price of 19999 yuan.
IFP also announced a combat video, heavily armed police forces in the western city of Mosul to clean up IS remnants. In the video, the police used a commercial unmanned aerial vehicle to throw a bomb, and saw the tail of the bomb with a plastic tube lengthened and fitted with a badminton to ensure the stability of the bomb, and the bomb itself seemed to be a 30mm grenade.
In a later release of a longer video, IFP's armed men loaded the bomb onto the M100 and then controlled the UAV with a ground control station, and the UAV finally produced a few meters of error when dropping the bomb.
IFP said that the use of this tactic to avoid civilian casualties and infrastructure damage. IS said that they shot down the IFP UAV is very easy, they have shot down three M100. But in January, the Iraqi government forces also said that shot down as many as a dozen IS commercial UAVs.
The Iraqi government uses the Chinese UAV to throw gun grenades into IS
The devastated city of Mosul.
According to Reuters reported on March 16, the current Iraqi government armed forces are still in Mosul cleared IS residual forces, most of the city has been under the control of government forces.
Note: DJI Nagano UAV is currently popular in the world of civil multi-axis unmanned aerial vehicles, from China's Shenzhen, Xinjiang production technology companies, mainly for civilian aerial photography and other uses, handling distance of 1 km to 7 km range. Such unmanned aerial vehicles in the market can be open to buy, the government and enterprises have no way to limit the flow of products.