After making him fly for about thirty minutes, the fundamentalists landed him and then loaded him onto a vehicle.
The Allied air command, which was monitoring everything via satellite, ordered an armed patrol fighter in the area to eliminate the threat, launching a missile at the vehicle.
The destruction of the drone and the vehicle was confirmed by the Combined Joint Task Force.
The attack took place twenty minutes after the sighting and identification of the drone.
"It was a small commercial drone, available for purchase on the Internet. It was certainly not one of our aircraft. The drone was not armed."
It is the first time that coalition forces are targeting an ISIS drone and for some this is a worrying sign of how UAV technology can be used by terrorist organizations.
The Pentagon emphasized the drastic difference between the small commercial drone and the far more lethal Predators used by the coalition. It is also true, however, that a relatively harmless technology can be adapted for different purposes.
Thus, ISIS has the ability to remotely monitor. Although these aircraft are distinctly different from the Western Hunter Killer, it may not have been long before the terrorist drones can be transformed into kamikaze UAVs.
Although this should be the first US attack on an Islamic State drone, evidence of the use of APR technology has been known for at least a year.
In a video called "Clanging of the Swords, Part 4", shot in 2014, there is a city in western Iraq, clearly seen from above, almost certainly by a drone.
Franco Iacch
(in the opening image a commercial drone can be purchased on the internet)
