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Thursday 07 Jan 2016 - 11:07 Makkah mean time-27-3-1437
ISIS develop new weaponry (Pic from The Independent)
London (IINA) – Scientists and weapon experts from the so-called Islamic State in Syria and Iraq (ISIS) have developed sophisticated new weaponry capable of shooting down passenger jets, The Independent reported on Wednesday.
According to the British daily, newly emerged footage shows militants at the group's Syrian base in Raqqa creating a homemade thermal battery, for use in decommissioned military surface-to-air missiles.
Experts say terror groups have had access to such weapons for decades - but storing them and creating the thermal battery vital to the missile's function is very difficult without advanced knowledge.
It is now feared that with access to this kind of battery, ISIS could potentially be capable of recommissioning thousands of disused missiles.
The paper noted that the missiles shown in the footage obtained by Sky News are said to be 99 percent accurate once they have locked on to their targets.
Other footage, which Sky News says was passed to them by Free Syrian Army (FSA) fighters who took it from a captured ISIS trainer in Turkey, apparently also shows the testing of a full-sized remote-controlled car.
The footage goes on to show the militants with mannequins fitted with systems that produce a human heat signature, allowing the cars to slip through sophisticated security scanning machines and launch bomb attacks on high-profile targets.
The hours of collected footage also includes training videos designed to instruct militants how to launch these kinds of attacks in their own countries.
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