
Originally Posted by
501
Quite few countries. The source of missiles is easy to identify throught serial numbers. It would piss off Russia + give Assad proofs that opposition is armed by west.
If you West wanted to arm opposition it would supply old missiles, which are cheap, perfectly effective against old Assad's armor and virtually impossible to track their source.
We know that Metis-M were supplied to Syria. So most probably what happened is that some stock was looted or defectors managed to take some.