Homemade Weapons In Syria
Updated: January 9th, 2013
Much like the rebels did in Libya, the Syrian rebels are turning workshops into improvised weapon factories. Al Jazeera reports …
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Unguided rockets fired at an airfield miles away would be quite ineffectual, but those anti-tank shaped charge mines look like they would be some real damage.
[ Many thanks to Konmrad for the tip. ]
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You know, an improvised weapon can anything from strung up grenades on a compressed air tank that puch through brick walls before detonating to a mere stick with metal bits on the end. A student of mine in Engineering Economics once made office arrows out of balloon sticks, some tape, screws, and some glue. When I joined him, we were shooting down birds in the parking lot..
Indeed is a double dangerous job to operate this kind of weapon, i would probably prefer my glock for a long shot instead one of those homemade rifles, not to say about the mortar.
But what caught my attention was the self propelled rocket system . It's clearly that they doesn't mind to shoot innocent people to put down their enemies. This should be enough for the West to not support neither the Dictator or the muslim rebels.