A few months ago some pictures came out in the press as Libyan rebels began capturing some of the military’s warehouses that contained large amounts of war material. I went ahead and labeled the crates and weaponry that was visible. Please leave a comment if you see something I missed!
Kit Up! contributor Jack Murphy is a former Ranger, Special Forces Soldier and is the author of the military thriller Reflexive Fire.
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let us just hope that these stockpiles don't end up in wrong hands……
…like mine. It's a smorgasbord for the upcoming zombie apocalypse!
Okay I know this may be the wrong place for this but now that the rebels have taken most of the capital what's going to happen to lybia? I only bring it up because it relates to where these stockpiles could go.
"the rebels have taken most of the capital"
Please stop watching CNN…
Could be true, could not be true.
Whatever gains they make are irrelevant right now.
The rebels and the loyalists have a history of breaking/routing/retreating.
Until someone gets smart enough to do something tactically sound, it'll be one huge seesaw.
I wonder how many Green Berets are in Libya right now. The country must be full of them…
Yeah Once used by Qaddafi's Army now in Al Qaeda's hands ohh rebels… same thing. Just another government screw up helping these Islamic murderers.
All of them eh?
How much are you willing to bet on your statement?
I'm sure these stocks were used to help the rebels finally waltz into Tripoli but I do wonder what will become of these war materials moving into the future. The path that some of this stuff takes is convoluted to say the least. Remember how the Soviet stocks that the IDF captured during the 6-Day War ended up being funneled via USAID (and others) to the Muj in Pakistan to fire that Soviet ammo back at the Russians? God only knows where this stuff will wind up in the long term…
Well its a fine mess and I have seen a lot of fnls and m60 mg in use by the so called rebals they have no need for russian ammo but it will be in the gaza in days or killing our young men in iraq and afganistan with in days also weres the outrage we toppeled a goverment like it or not so are we now allow to take maters in uor own hands ????????
Where's the 5.56? If the mercenaries have fn f2000's they'll need some of those.
I wish my garage looked like that!!!
I'm guessing the T-55 ammunition is somewhere else?
also kinda surprised that the loyalist forces didn't try and disable/destroy these munitions first
Send Qadafi a Christmas card thanking him for the aid to drive him out.
I say much of this ammo already has Americans targeted,even before they captured it.If Uncle Sam finds this to be true they will go hell and back before they let that info reach the public.SEMPER FI
The frightening box is the SA-7 – bad news if they get near an airport.
I only see "tractor parts"
.50 cal is probably 12.7×108mm, the Soviet heavy machine gun round
I wouldn't worry about surplus ammo falling into the wrong hands… Between the "spray and pray" tactics and the traditional "shoot the sky to teach it a lesson" celebration, they've probably only got 5 rounds left.
I forgot where I saw the article (probably stratigypage) but it looks like we have actually killed off alot of the spray-in-pray and at least in afganastain, we're now running into a slight increase in accurate fire from muj that grew up listning to granddad talk about how they snipped so and so at such and such distance, because before the automatic afganistain was known for very accurate riflemen. Probably missed/mixed-up/dropped a few facts but that was the gist of the article as I remember it. Let the snipping begin :D
Any ideas what this little sub gun is (from NYTimes.com, Tuesday):
http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2011/08/23/wo… http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2011/08/23/wo…
First one looks like a later model uzi.
Could be an Italian made Spectre SMG
Nope. Beretta M12s, Italian SMG. It's distinctive matching grip and foregrip and tubular profile.
1st one perhaps
2nd one spectre
"Abu what is this round thingy on the grenade?"
I bet a week from now a huge explosion from an accident will wipe this place out.
Free ammo?!!
Lucky libbies.
They're all liberal?
Care to bet on that?
You think he might mean libyans???
Appears you overlooked the muslim sucide boommer in the middle.
since france said its committed to the end, the foreign leigon and other NATO spec ops will use the munitions some where else. sell the muntions to other forces..anyways if you people read the policy below, its says do not discriminate.. yes i am an american citizen and a marine officer canidate. but this b.s of, oh this will be in islamic murders hands..(murders, your labeling a religion's minorty sect. as the mian stream..do your research of islam and then you can make your rude comments) i am a christian but an anti-zionist. please gtfo if you can refrain your self from making rude comments.
would like to know wat are in the longer green boxes by the guys legs right next to the RPG
Those olive drab canisters at the lower left look to be M72 type LAW disposable rocket launchers.
I've seen alot of videos of guys running Fals, I wonder where all the 7.62 nato is at.
Can I have some of the 54r?