Here it comes: Syria
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Attrition seems to have created a de-facto no fly zone.
Here is a rebel convoy yesterday which would make a juicy target to any air assets.
And to show what is happening on the ground this is a Sunni convoy that has given up on fighting the government in Homs so that they can go and fight the Kurds.
Here is a rebel convoy yesterday which would make a juicy target to any air assets.
And to show what is happening on the ground this is a Sunni convoy that has given up on fighting the government in Homs so that they can go and fight the Kurds.
And to show what is happening on the ground this is a Sunni convoy that has given up on fighting the government in Homs so that they can go and fight the Kurds.
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I spoke too soon. Here some government helicopters pretty much destroy an ISIS (extremist islam) convoy (probably the same one in the previous video).
You can see an oil drum bomb in the helicopter. The sort they also drop on bread queues.
Video: https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=218859071598590
You can see an oil drum bomb in the helicopter. The sort they also drop on bread queues.
Video: https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=218859071598590
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I wonder where they got the training on the SA-8. Not exactly an off the shelf Nintendo style piece of kit. 
Latest news is that some of the more Islamist rebels captured over fifty Syrian Army soldiers ... and then executed them. Fifty - one is the number reported. Tells you who these scumbags really are, eh? 
I don't understand what happened in the first video. What blew up?
The second looks like a standard ZSU-23 type tracked AAA rig.
Old reliable, as it were.
The second looks like a standard ZSU-23 type tracked AAA rig.
Old reliable, as it were.
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The first video looks very petroleum like.
Petrol storage tank or something where the blast is directed upwards and so forming the mushroom ?
Petrol storage tank or something where the blast is directed upwards and so forming the mushroom ?
To whomever the rocketeer was: nice shot! 
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Wouldn't want to be part of a government tank crew, the attrition rate is very high. And it is about to get higher. The rebels have captured a warehouse full of Konkurs, Kornet, Fagot and Milan.
This is a different form of warfare. Light infantry using lots and lots of tube launched artillery. Mortars, rockets, RPGs, missiles. The big explosion in the video above was caused by a rebel Grad landing on a government arms depot.
The rebels have factories making some of their tube artillery and the ammunition for it.
Warehouse:
This is a different form of warfare. Light infantry using lots and lots of tube launched artillery. Mortars, rockets, RPGs, missiles. The big explosion in the video above was caused by a rebel Grad landing on a government arms depot.
The rebels have factories making some of their tube artillery and the ammunition for it.
Warehouse:
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Menagh air force base near Aleppo has been surrounded by the rebels since January. It is a classic siege. The rebels have thrown lots of mortars, ATGMs and rockets at it. Killing the tanks there one by one.
The government have been re-supplying by airdrop (the runway is not usable, being under constant fire) and have been doing repeated air strikes against the surrounding rebels, at least 6 this morning, for instance.
Now the rebels made the mother of all car bombs. They added lots of extra armour to a BMP armoured personnel carrier, put 6 tons of high explosives in it then drove it into the centre of the base and set it off.
BMP setting off on mission:
The explosion:
Then they sent in the infantry:
There are so many cameras in the conflict and they upload videos so quickly that it is possible to follow events in near real time.
The government have been re-supplying by airdrop (the runway is not usable, being under constant fire) and have been doing repeated air strikes against the surrounding rebels, at least 6 this morning, for instance.
Now the rebels made the mother of all car bombs. They added lots of extra armour to a BMP armoured personnel carrier, put 6 tons of high explosives in it then drove it into the centre of the base and set it off.
BMP setting off on mission:
The explosion:
Then they sent in the infantry:
There are so many cameras in the conflict and they upload videos so quickly that it is possible to follow events in near real time.
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There are so many cameras in the conflict and they upload videos so quickly that it is possible to follow events in near real time.
That large car/BMP bomb was an ingenious little move.