The Islamic State continues to refine (if that term can be used) its "technology". On a hard drive that ended up in the editorial office of Sky News, dozens of videos for "training" purposes were found. No beheading, but instructions coming directly from the "laboratories" of the Islamic State of Raqqa and intended for the terrorists scattered around the caliphate. A technology that the West would not hesitate to define as obsolete.
From the images emerges a particular care of the fundamentalists in improving suicide tactics. Terrorists all over the world love to get blown up, but there is a basic problem: there are fewer and fewer volunteers to martyrdom. Here, then, the "engineers" of the Islamic State are refining the cars loaded with remote radio-controlled explosives.
The primary technique for identifying such a threat is to aim an infrared camera at the vehicle. If the latter does not emit any heat signature, it neutralizes itself. The ISIS designers, however, would have improved the remote guidance system on the one hand and solved the thermal signature problem on the other. The mannequin placed at the helm was wired and covered with aluminum sheets, previously heated, in order to emit heat identifiable by the infrared camera.
There is no field evidence of the use of such "technology". In the "training" videos you will find a bit of everything: from instructions for making homemade bombs to advances in surface-to-air missile technology.
The technological innovation of the Islamic State cannot be considered on a par with that of the West. It is mostly a "genuine", almost "naive" technology. This does not mean that it cannot also be effective.
(photo and video: Sky News)
