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This chilling video shows the inside of an Islamic State weapons lab where militants are plotting terrifying attacks against Europe.

Footage from the terror group's Raqqa HQ shows how jihadists are developing a number of sophisticated weapons to kill huge numbers of people.

This includes a prototype “remote controlled car bomb” which the group could distribute globally to attack countries like the UK.

The terror group has also employed scientists to train jihadists to make surface to air missiles from ordinary missiles taken from warplanes.

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Footage featured on a Sky News film last night was described as an “intelligence gold mine” by British bomb expert Major Chris Hunter.

A film clip shows an Islamic State training team at the ‘Jihadi University’ in Raqqa working on remote controlled cars to act as mobile bombs.

They have fitted even fitted the cars with mannequins to look like ‘drivers’ - that are given a heat signature so they emulate humans when viewed by spy planes.

Staggeringly the mannequins even have self-regulating thermostats to produce the heat signature of humans. This allows the car bombs to evade security scanning machines.

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The terror group's heat seeking missiles could be used to attack passenger and military aircraft.

One they are locked on a target they are 99% accurate.

Major Hunter described it as “one of the most significant intelligent finds in terms of Daesh.”

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In Turkey, an Islamic State defector told Sky News reporter Stuart Ramsay the training programme is “meant for Europe” and is designed to “target a large number of people in more than one location.”

An IS trainer with more than eight hours of unedited training videos was captured by the remnants of the Free Syrian Army (FSA) as he headed north towards Turkey and was believed to heading for Europe.

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The extensive collection of videos shows the men being trained to adapt the electronic parts of scrap cars to make the remote controlled cars work using sophisticated un-jammable radio sets; and long lessons on how to configure the mannequins to appear like human drivers.

Some of the trainers and designers make no effort to disguise themselves but the “students” remain largely concealed.

Security analysts believe it is an indicator that they are trying to preserve their own operational security while accepting that they need to train and circulate the videos to followers abroad.