Terror threat

Footage of ISIS weapons lab shows construction of heat-seeking missiles, car bombs

Footage of the weapons lab in Raqqa, Syria was obtained by Sky News and shows that ISIS scientists have managed to produce a homemade thermal battery for use in surface-to-air missile systems. That had previously been thought impossible for terror groups without any military infrastructure to accomplish.

The footage shows that ISIS can recommission thousands of missiles prevously thought unusable and target passenger and military aircraft. 

Sky News reports that terror groups had previously been able to build the weapons, but storing them and maintaining the thermal battery was difficult to do. 

"What this video shows is that ISIS are leagues ahead of their terrorist predecessors," Chris Hunter, a former bomb technician with the United Kingdom Special Forces, told Sky News. "Their advanced knowledge of weapons engineering, coupled with their seemingly limitless ability to reverse engineer and recondition weapons (which until now intelligence agencies had considered obsolete and beyond repair) kept me awake all night."