ISLAMIC STATE TURNS TO DRONES TO DIRECT SUICIDE CAR BOMBERS
Faced with a diminishing number of fighters, the Islamic State group is relying on retrofitted commercial drones to guide suicide car bombers to their targets and to launch small-scale airstrikes on Iraqi forces.
The extremist group is spending freely on drone technology as it faces pressure from coalition forces, hacking store-bought machines, applying rigorous testing protocols and mimicking tactics used by U.S. unmanned aircraft.
In all, a half-dozen storehouses IS used to make and modify drones have been found recently
