Across myriad wars and insurgencies worldwide, vehicles make the biggest makeshift bombs. We’ve seen car bombs, motorcycle bombs, truck bombs, and even rarer things like donkey bombs. ISIS is taking it a step further, with the first tank bombs.
Reports out of Syria’s eastern Deir Ezzor Province say that ISIS used a suicide tank bomb attack earlier this month, during the attempted siege of the last Syrian military air base in the province.
Details on the damage done by the attack are still unclear, and it is similarly unclear what sort of tank was used in the bombing. ISIS has seized a number of tanks in fighting in both Syria and Iraq.
ISIS’ access to modern weaponry seems to be growing on other fronts, too, with the latest propaganda video on Kobani featuring surveillance drone footage of targets of suicide bombings in the Kurdish border town. The footage suggests ISIS has at least something of a drone fleet.
"…suggests ISIS has at least something of a drone fleet."
This is a surprise? The friggin' real estate company down the road from me has a drone – though it's not mounted with hellfires.
Take heart, there's little chance that ISIS is going to come up with a bomb that will even come close to the US's Weapons of Mass Destruction. I mean real Mass Destruction, not gas attacks that kill perhaps a hundred people. WMD's such as huge bombs dropped on the Iraqi people by the US which kill thousands of civilians. Stuff that Saddam could have only dreamed of being able to use.