You can't win a war with small arms...

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http://www.theatlantic.com/infocus/2013/02/diy-weapons-of-the-syrian-rebels/100461/

Turns out you can improvise the rest. I don't think there is a lot here than hasn't been done elsewhere. Maybe orienting tubes with an Iphone or using a PS controller to control a turret.
When do you think the related PS game will be coming out for that one?

The trebuchet is a bit odd. The use of a ?wheel? instead of a straight arm on the weight may increase power significantly though. Seems to me like their ratios are off a bit though.
 
Anybody still doubt the indomitable human spirit? You might destroy these guys, but you're not going to break their will.
 
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I saw a similar "vehicle" in Copenhagen used by the Danish Resistance in WWII. It takes brave men to fight in those things against real tanks.
 
Using them to bring up reinforcements in urban firefights would be my use.

I'm not sure how many tanks they are bringing into cities. They are pretty vulnerable in narrow streets. Not everyone gets an Abrams. The T-72M is the best they have and it has pretty outdated armor.
 
I suspect the Syrian regulars bring tanks (arty, acft) to bear on the rebels and their vehicles at every opportunity.
 
Looks like Clint Eastwood's bus in "The Gauntlet."

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That armor they are using looks to be good for maybe up too 7.62mm or so, but something like a .50cal would cut right through it.

Still, if you are careful in where and how you employ them then they can be great assets.

If these guys are truely fighting for their freedom I don't understand why we aren't helping them more. Are they the "other guys" freedom fighters? Or is America too tired to be America right now?
 
While I do not know anything about the Syrian civil war or the politics associated with it, I must say I am fervently against US supporting either side in such altercations. Interventionism at any level needs to be phased out.
 
Interventionism at any level needs to be phased out.
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That's just what a whole lot of people were saying in the good years leading up to and into WWI. In the histroty books we called it Isolationism. It didn't work out very well, we still got into a fight, and we still had many families hurt.

You can't stick your head in the sand, you can't be the bully on the corner or the world's policeman either.

But you can get your intel people out into the world, keep them watching and looking for real threats and when one shows it's head, cut it off quick, clean, leave nothing but suspicion and no one to point a dirty finger at.
 
Sniper tactics

These fighters clearly think outside of the box.

The photojournalism coverage of the syrian conflict has also focused on the urban sniper tactics implemented by the free syrian army. Here is a slideshow from reuters that depicts some of the sniper tactics. One that I found interesting was the use of sheets being strung up between buildings to provide concealment from government snipers.

http://in.reuters.com/news/pictures/slideshow?articleId=INRTR3BJAH#a=19
 
I am wary of what I see in the news in regards to either side. I remember reading an article in the daily mail about an elite "black widow" type sniper, a woman who took up the cause after the Regime killed her husband and children.

She was supposed to be some sort of expert sniper now, equipped with a scoped FAL. The problem is almost every photo of her "set up" waiting for the Syrian army broke every rule in the book, like standing right IN a window, barrel of the rifle sticking fully out the window for all to see. I doubt if she was even an actual sniper that she lasted long.


On the flip side though this is a story this is an example of how you cannot easily destroy the will of a determined enemy. You have guys in technical and guys with trebuchets going up against T-72’s, BMP’s and Hind helicopters.
 
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