The Taliban Are Using Drones To Watch U.S. Forces 24/7 In Afghanistan

US Marines test the IXI Technology Dronekiller, a portable jammer that a single individual can carry and employ to disrupt a small drone's link with its operator, potentially causing it to crash. USMC

Task & Purpose: The Taliban Are Watching US Troops With Drones ’24/7′ In Afghanistan

If you step onto a U.S. military outpost in Afghanistan, then militants may be watching your every move.

* During an October showcase of counter-drone directed energy weapons at the White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico, Air Force Research Laboratory official Tom Lockhart revealed that the Taliban and various insurgent groups that are battling for control of the country are aggressively utilizing unmanned aircraft to keep an eye on Resolute Support personnel.
* “Coming back from Afghanistan last year in October [2017], I was at a base where we had a lot of unmanned systems sitting over and watching everything we do,” Lockhart explained in an interview at White Sands. “For the future, our airmen would like to not be monitored 24/7 and this will push that [the drones] back so they [the militants] don’t have that monitoring capability.”
* He did not elaborate on exactly which base he was at, but most Air Force personnel are assigned to Kandahar Air Field in the south, or at the northern Bagram Air Field, the largest base in the country.

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Update: USAF Says Insurgent Drones Are Watching One Of Its Bases In Afghanistan '24/7' (Warzone/The Drive)

WNU Editor: Drones in the air. Sympathizers on the ground relaying intel back to the Taliban. I for one would not be surprised if the Taliban know exactly what the U.S. is doing on a real time feed. And as for U.S./Afghan intelligence watching the Taliban .... my gut is telling me that it is not as good as we like to believe it is.

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