The Syrian Arab Army’s 555th Regiment of the 4th Mechanized Division reportedly downed a reconnaissance drone that belonged to the Islamic State of Iraq and Al-Sham (ISIS) on Saturday.
Local units were able to capture on film the Syrian Arab Army downing this reconnaissance drone during their military operations in the west Raqqa countryside:
Why not use MANPAD? It’s easier…
40k$ a ManPADS (with a S at the end : Portable Air Defense SYSTEM).
(and it’s the price of a Stinger 20 years ago, so now…)
But you can get much more of it on the black market : CIA is OK to pay 600k$ to you if you’ve got a manPADS and surrender it to them… So if a dirty terrorist wants some, he won’t get it probably under a million… And better hope that CIA, SVR, DGSE, etc etc, never know you sold it… So anyone clever with access to such missile will simply… steal it, get out of the country and sell it to CIA : it’s enough to live at the level the upper middle class way for +100 years in most… Read more »
T es le seul ici à avoir un bon raisonnement et à faire des réponses intéressantes. Merci
Who supplies these terrorists with drones?
MANPADS are only Provided to Jihadists by the Filthy YANKIS. i think SAA hasn’t any MANPADS
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