A captured rebel drone. Photo via author
Drone Battle Over Syria -- Jassem Al Salami, War is Boring
Loyalists and rebels spying on each other with off-the-shelf robots
It appears the Syrian army is spying on rebel forces using the same drones that consumers can buy for just a couple thousand dollars. And the rebels might be using similar flying robots to spy right back.
It’s a do-it-yourself robot battle over war-ravaged Syria.
Al Rahman Corps, a Syrian rebel group in Eastern Ghouta near Damascus have displayed a six-rotor drone—a.k.a., a “hexacopter”—they claim to have shot down the over the town of Meliha during the current flare-up in fighting.
The rebels say they have shot down two of the hexacopters in recent weeks.
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My Comment: They are being used primarily for spying and targeting, but heir use tells me that both sides are now desperate to find something/anything that will give them an advantage in a civil war that is now essentially stalemated.
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