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Mexican Cartel Drops Bombs With Improvised Attack Drone
Published 2 years ago
Footage has surfaced reportedly showing a Mexican cartel using a recreational type helicopter drone to drop bomblets on an undetermined group of people in Michoacan.
According to available reports, the drone was piloted by the Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG) and the target may have been either a displaced peoples camp or a local civilian defense force militia outpost.
The use of recreational drones to drop explosives was first made popular by the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS), but has since seen similar application in hotspots across the world, including Ukraine and Myanmar.
The CJNG drone attack is unique in that multiple bomblets are dropped at once. It's not clear if any casualties were inflicted in the attack. The drone appears to be shot down or undergo some sort of catastrophic malfunction that causes it to fall from the sky.
