ISIS fanatics are running so low on suicide bomb volunteers that they are now using remote control cars as bombs
ISIS cannot spare the manpower to launch suicide car bomb attacks
ISIS is being forced to rely on full-size remote control cars packed with explosives instead of suicide bombers as the crumbling terror group is struggling to replenish its depleted ranks.
Jihadis also appear to be using remotely-operated combat vehicles fitted with gun turrets.
Numerous tech and counter-terror experts posted a picture of one of the deadly vehicles seized by Iraqi government forces in the war-torn city of Mosul.
The death cult appears to be relying on the technological terrors because it has suffered heavy losses in Syria and Iraq and cannot spare the manpower to launch suicide car bomb attacks.
Research by revealed that in recent months around 80% of ISIS suicide bombers have been elderly men and children, most notably in Iraq.
In January Sky News broadcast horrifying footage showing how an ISIS research and development team produced fully-working remote controlled cars with a range of 3km to act as mobile bombs.
They even fitted the cars with 'drivers' - mannequins with self-regulating thermostats to produce the heat signature of humans that allow the car bombs to evade sophisticated scanning machines.
US Colonel Joe Scrocca, a spokesman for the Baghdad-based coalition, said ISIS had an estimated 2,000 fighters in west Mosul when the Iraqi push on the northern city began in mid-February.
"We believe it's less than half now," he said.
In January a US General revealed that ISIS is being exterminated at an unsustainable rate, with more than 45,000 killed by coalition air strikes up to August last year.
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Major General Rupert Jones, deputy commander for the Combined Joint Task Force coalition, said: "We are killing Daesh (ISIS) at a rate that they simply can’t sustain
"The enemy cannot sustain the attrition that they are suffering and therefore they lose terrain, they lose battles."
ISIS is also struggling to pay jihadis, according to Iraq’s former finance minister Hoshyar Zebari.
Sky News reported on Tuesday that Zebari had said that ISIS, which once raked in $5 million a day, is now broke and cannot pay the fighters under its command.