Afghan Taliban’s ‘cheap but deadly’ drone campaign

• Islamabad reported 23 drone incursions in September alone• Afghan drones run on 55cc engines commercially available online; low-cost ‘suicide weapons’ can carry up to 1kg explosives, posing hard-to-detect threat to infrastructure• Experts warn UAVs can inflict ‘heavy psychological damage’ BUILDING an air force no longer requires a proper defence budget, it just takes a 3D printer, open-source autopilot software and an internet connection. Over the skies of Pakistan, the Afghan Taliban are prov

Source: Dawn