And together, he added, the task force and the Iraqis have measurably reduced the effectiveness of ISIL's main weapon system, the vehicle-borne improvised explosive devices, and destroyed nearly a dozen of ISIL's makeshift attack drones.
Vehicle Bombs, Drones
When Iraqi forces were fighting on the outskirts of Mosul they’d see what Sylvia described as “Mad Max-looking VBIEDs.” He was referring to the main character in a 1979 Australian film that took place in a post-apocalyptic world and whose adversaries waged war using patch-worked, but deadly vehicles.
“[ISIL] had taken vehicles [and] put steel plating all around these things and just had a small little porthole that the driver would be able to see through, and they would try to ram these things into the Iraqi defenses,” Sylvia said.
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