Some guns from Libya

[k9870]

They are getting their asses kicked.

[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.

[funkychinaman]

Well, the president said we're in this until Gaddafi is out. So if the rebels are getting their asses kicked, and president wants to follow through, you can see where this is going.

On the plus side, we already have lots of equipment in the region.

[funkychinaman]

Chris Hondros' final pictures were published. It looks like they're mainly just using AKs for actually fighting, which makes sense. There's also an FAL in one of the photos.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/0...97.html#267573

[Swordfish941]

Originally Posted by funkychinaman

Chris Hondros' final pictures were published. It looks like they're mainly just using AKs for actually fighting, which makes sense. There's also an FAL in one of the photos.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/0...97.html#267573

He was a brave man and he will not be forgotten.

[k9870]

Ghadaffi is bad but the rebels may not be better, there is no one rebel movememnt though. One leader says "we want peace and democracy" another says "we need sharia law" then anopther says "society needs to be more tribal."

Remember when the rebels took british soldiers hostage? Bad move.

[Milkovich]

Originally Posted by k9870

Remember when the rebels took british soldiers hostage?

When was that?

[funkychinaman]

Originally Posted by k9870

Ghadaffi is bad but the rebels may not be better, there is no one rebel movememnt though. One leader says "we want peace and democracy" another says "we need sharia law" then anopther says "society needs to be more tribal."

Remember when the rebels took british soldiers hostage? Bad move.

Were those rebels? I thought that was government forces.

[k9870]

I was rebels took a diploamat and his sas guards hostage for about a day. Early march i think.

I cant believe he went in a burning building during a gunfight.

[Markit]

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.

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