Syrian Uprising - Photos and Videos Thread - Read First post.. Excessive graphic warn

[mptrooper]

http://observers.france24.com/conten...ers-homs-erbin

About the FSA

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[kalerab]

Little fun on AJA

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[chicos]

[G-AWZT]

I wonder what percentage of the Army has defected thus far. I assume the air force is still behind Assad?

[ea8]

Syrian army tanks in Hama.

Interesting video.
Mix of old armour: T-55, BMP-1, BTR-50 and New (2000-x) trucks: GAZ trucks and Gazelle minibuses.

[Norsu]

FSA BMP-1 from previous page knocked out already?

[kalerab]

A member of the Free Syrian Army (FSA) in al-Qusayr, a small city of some 40,000 inhabitants located about 15 miles south-west of the flashpoint city of Homs

A Syrian army defector holds up his military ID

A member of the renegade Free Syrian Army during an attack operation against the Syrian army

An FSA casualty receives first aid after he was wounded by a rocket-propelled grenade

FSA fighters take up positions on the street. Entire areas of al-Qusayr are empty because they fall within the range of sniper fire

http://apps.facebook.com/theguardian/p/356gq/tw

[SIPRI]

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This FSAer carries what seems to be a FN FAL. I have seen some more FALs on other pictures of FSA rebels. Like the one at
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-13855203

Does anyone know if these come from Syrian stocks? May be delivered in the 1970s or 1980s like many of the FN FALs that were used in Libya last year. Or is there any indication these were delivered to the FSA recently from elsewhere?

[Ronguild]

I wonder, at first I thought that it was this police APC



but it´s too small. Frankly it looks like armored GAZ with installed turret.

No it is a SHORLAND APC : An armored Land Rover with a Ferret turret.

[calimero2]

Interesting video.
Mix of old armour: T-55, BMP-1, BTR-50 and New (2000-x) trucks: GAZ trucks and Gazelle minibuses.

Allready posted in #623 but interesting indeed. The T-55 tanks appear (almost) all to be the Czechoslovakian licence model. Many of them have been upgraded with a LRF on top of the gun, either the North Korean one:




or another type that I cannot identify:



It doesn't seem to be the Soviet (KTD series) of Czechoslovakian (Kladivo) one though.

[OrangeWolf]

Does anyone know if these come from Syrian stocks? May be delivered in the 1970s or 1980s like many of the FN FALs that were used in Libya last year. Or is there any indication these were delivered to the FSA recently from elsewhere?

It could have been smuggled in from Lebanon. Or perhaps the Syrian army stole these type of weapons during their occupation of Lebanon.

[kalerab]

Allready posted in #623 but interesting indeed. The T-55 tanks appear (almost) all to be the Czechoslovakian licence model. Many of them have een upgraded with a LRF on top of the gun, either the North Korean one:

During Soviet times we delivered to Syria and other Arab countries several hundred T-55 and T-72 tanks which were never payed for. As for Kladivo, it was guidance system for tank operators, you would recognize it from this picture anyway.

As for those FALs, several weeks ago colonel Harati, former commander of Tripoli Brigade, returned from Hatay where he was talking with col. Riyad al-Asaad of FSA. They may be very well from Libya which has more than enough weapons.