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Improvised Weapons of Syria
Reuters via Yahoo News ^

Posted on 08/27/2013 2:10:52 PM PDT by Kartographer

Unable to take advantage of such modern-day weapons as cruise missiles and smart bombs, Syrian rebels are employing far more rudimentary technology in their assaults on President Bashar al-Assad's regime.

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: iran; lebanon; randsconcerntrolls; syria; turkey
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Currently the only Russian ship at their base in Tartus, Syria is the Amur-class floating workshop (similar to a US Navy destroyer tender) PM-138, which is stationed there to support the ships currently assigned to the Med.
Right now there are two destroyers, three medium-sized amphibs, seven support ships, and an unknown number of submarines operating in the area. If things start to get really troublesome, they might deploy their Black Sea Fleet, which has two cruisers, one destroyer, two frigates, and thirteen corvettes. A number of these ships are armed with the SS-N-22 Sunburn ramjet anti-ship missile. A wave-hugger with a speed in excess of Mach-3, this missile was designed to cripple US carriers and kill just about anything else.


21 posted on 08/27/2013 3:21:08 PM PDT by mulder1
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To: Las Vegas Ron

Could not agree with you more.


22 posted on 08/27/2013 3:23:30 PM PDT by mulder1
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To: Las Vegas Ron

“These people are ruthless and understand war is an ugly business, we want to fight it as if there are laws in warfare.”

If you can’t even piss on their corpse you certainly can’t eliminate them.


23 posted on 08/27/2013 3:43:49 PM PDT by RS_Rider (I hate Illinois Nazis)
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If you can’t even piss on their corpse you certainly can’t eliminate them.

Bump!

24 posted on 08/27/2013 3:46:16 PM PDT by Las Vegas Ron ("Medicine is the keystone in the arch of socialism" Vladimir Lenin)
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To: Kartographer

It doesn’t say your jihad has to be succesful, you can fail miserably if you had purity of heart when you blow yourself trying to take out your enemy


25 posted on 08/27/2013 4:22:16 PM PDT by Joe Boucher ((FUBO) ( Hey Rubio, eat pooh pal))
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To: Kartographer

Where is the one with the rebels using a giant slingshot to hurl chemical weapons at the Syrian Army?


26 posted on 08/27/2013 4:57:13 PM PDT by RetiredTexasVet (Progressives are never accountable for "unintended consequences" .... just for causing most)
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To: RetiredTexasVet
They probably used the launcher shown in comment #18.


27 posted on 08/27/2013 5:12:56 PM PDT by familyop (We Baby Boomers are croaking in an avalanche of rotten politics smelled around the planet.)
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To: RetiredTexasVet

Post #8 this thread


28 posted on 08/27/2013 5:15:46 PM PDT by Kartographer ("We mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor.")
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To: Las Vegas Ron

If you can’t even piss on their corpse you certainly can’t eliminate them.
Bump!

BUMP!


29 posted on 08/27/2013 5:40:11 PM PDT by S.O.S121.500 (Case back hoe for sale or trade for diesel wood chipper....Enforce the Bill of Rights. It's the Law!)
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