Drone attack hits near U.S. forces in Erbil, northern Iraq - officials

A common one I saw was taking old 40mm MK-19 rounds, removing the rotation fail safe mechanism and installing a direct impact bypass to the firing mechanism essentially turning 40mm into impact grenades. Then 3D printing stabilizers or better yet using toilet paper rolls with a badminton shuttlecock taped to the back to guide it to the ground. They would tape or glue a used cut off caulk gun tube to the bottom of a DJI phantom, wire a servo to a photo sensor and duck tape it to the lights on the phantom. You can selectively turn those lights on and off for things like nighttime photography so they used it as a means of remote release.

Boom, you have a remotely activated 40mm grenade bomber that can’t be seen unless it’s dumb close to you and the likely hood of you hearing it on a military FOB with generators or vehicles running is just about literally 0%. Radar/EW was about the only way to pick up drones and even then there are limitations on those systems.

Bottom line, they are fucking terrifying and unbelievable assets to anyone that’s using them. I’ve seen $150 hobby drones, you buy at hobby lobby or Hobby Town USA, taped up with a shape charge blow the doors clean the fuck off MRAPs or MATVS no problem with in some cases literally 500% less explosives than what an IED would take to do the same damage. We even had it tested again to see if we could recreate the destructions and we did it with less explosives than what had originally destroyed a US vehicle in one of the combat zones.

Drones are in my opinions 1000% more terrifying than IEDs.

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