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UK spies disrupt Daesh drones

Former UK military intelligence officer Philip Ingram: Daesh has been trialing drones and using them for some time in Syria and Iraq in an offensive as well as information-gathering role
Director of GCHQ Jeremy Fleming: We piloted some early technologies to disrupt (Daesh’s) use of some pretty basic drone technology, which was causing us a problem

By Charlie Peters · 08 February 2021