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Originally Posted by August
As you say development continues and what was once impossible will eventually become easy. Daesh isn't going to field anything near "state of the art" but we shouldn't underestimate their ability to macgiver something lower tech and make it effective.
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Originally Posted by eddie
The Iraqi Army in Mosul is finding this out the hard way, the Daesh armed drones have wounded and killed Iraqi soldiers with their cheap drones. One unarmed drone will find some Iraqi soldiers standing in a group some where, then they guide the armed drone to the area, where it releases its home made bombs right into the middle of the group. Very deadly even if on a small scale compared to a Hellfire missile.
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True, I meant more in the case of a western situation, where it's harder to make the sort of improvised explosives without detection than it is in Iraq.
The sparsity of attacks in the west over the past couple of years indicates that either Daesh is not as well entrenched in the west as we'd lead ourselves to believe, or that our intelligence services are very good at identifying and preventing attacks...or (most likely) something in the middle.
That's not to discount the brutality and cost of the attacks when they do occur, but from a sheer numbers perspective, we're slaughtering them while they're just giving us paper cuts.