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Originally Posted by Mandolin1
I'd love the rebels to win, but any rebel group that can't "liberate" an airfield, tank depot, or armory (esprecialy the armory) in the first day deserves to lose. They don't have to hold the place, just take what you can and wreck the rest.
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The rebels did liberate the airfields, tank depots and major armories in Benghazi and Tobruk by early March. The problem is that these airfields, armories and depots had the older, more obsolete equipment (a by-product of Gadhaffi's favoritism of western Libya and the concentration of his best military units around Tripoli), which put them at a disadvantage in terms of firepower from the start.
A few more photos:
Carl Gustav:
AK-103s (turns out Venezuela supplied 10,000 of them to Gadhaffi in recent months)
Improvised rocket launcher using a Soviet 57mm rocket pod:
Also, here is a video of the rebels firing MILAN ATGMs (supposedly supplied by Qatar):
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=91f_1303333102