AN ISIS terrorist blew himself up when the drone bomb he was operating ran low on battery — and flew back.
The idiotic killer was targeting allied forces after the Battle for Mosul in northern Iraq.
He had customised his weapon to carry plastic explosive and planned to detonate it by troops based in the city.
But his plan backfired because he had forgotten to sufficiently charge the device.
Civilian drones — as weaponised by ISIS — automatically 'boomerang' back to their point of launch when they start to run out of power.
They are programmed to return to prevent owners losing their machines.
August 26, 2019, 02:14 PM
Krazeehorse
Love a happy ending. Hope he doesn't have family in the US that can sue the drone company lol.
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August 26, 2019, 02:21 PM
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August 26, 2019, 02:25 PM
MNSIG
Maybe, but it sounds a bit like the impossible 4 mile shot made by the anonymous sniper just before he was about to incinerate the ten school children in the town square story.
August 26, 2019, 02:36 PM
Snake207
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Originally posted by MNSIG: Maybe, but it sounds a bit like the impossible 4 mile shot made by the anonymous sniper just before he was about to incinerate the ten school children in the town square story.
I was literally about to mention that - I think it's even the same UK magazine that posts those things.
Feel good story, years old, zero specific and just a little too good to be true.
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August 26, 2019, 03:21 PM
kz1000
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August 26, 2019, 04:03 PM
PowerSurge
Drone was smarter than the operator. Aloha snackbar!
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August 26, 2019, 04:20 PM
az4783054
what goes around, comes around...and blows you up.
August 26, 2019, 04:23 PM
Mr.9mm
Guess no one told him: "Once the pin is pulled, Mr. Grenade is no longer our friend." Oh well...
August 26, 2019, 05:21 PM
kkina
Reminds me of this unfortunate fellow. No idea if this is fake or not. Maybe he forgot to open the window?
It's not like the drone doesn't tell you it's returning home. Further, you can set what "home" is for the RTH settings, and the point needn't be the controller. And if he was intending to deliver the payload at anything other than visual range (and those little things are hard to see past a few hundred feet, not to mention intervening terrain), he was flying with a smartphone or table, so he could clearly see through the drone's camera. Even for an inbred ISIS dumbass, it's a wee bit unlikely that he'd ignore the RTH indicator AND not see that the drone was flying back to him.
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August 26, 2019, 07:09 PM
P220 Smudge
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Originally posted by MNSIG: Maybe, but it sounds a bit like the impossible 4 mile shot made by the anonymous sniper just before he was about to incinerate the ten school children in the town square story.
You forgot the part where the sniper is British, usually SAS or Royal Marines. Those stories are always Brit snipers, without fail. Off the camel's ass, around the corner, killed 500 gnats on the send, 5,000 enemy kia when it nicked a fuel tank, no friendly casualties, nothing but net. Yay UK.
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August 26, 2019, 07:12 PM
Rightwire
Was the terrorists first name Wylie?
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