by BENEDETTA ARGENTIERI
WAR IS BORING - APRIL 2015
It was a clear day in mid-March
when a drone flew over the disputed city of Sinjar in northern Iraq,
photographing Islamic State’s fighting positions.
When
the drone landed after its 13-minute flight, a small crowd of Kurdish
Peshmerga soldiers cheered and smiled. They were puzzled by this odd
airplane with white polystyrene wings so small it could fit inside the
trunk of a car. They had never seen anything like it before.
The
flight plan had seven different points of interest to capture over
nearly five miles of flight. The GoPro camera attached to the LA-300 UAV was also able to photograph the details of buildings used as weapons caches.
The Daesh — what
Kurds call Islamic State — heard it flying over their heads and
broadcasted an alarm by radio. The jihadis thought the United States was
about to launch an air strike.
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