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NATO aid to the ''Libyan rebels''

  • 13-05-2011 12:13pm
    #1
    whydave
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,062 ✭✭✭


    Could this be the pictures of the 'Aid' to be given by NATO in Africa's latest civil war ,though the Libyan Army would have mostly Warsaw pact weapons ?
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    Photo Credit: Getty Images/Chris Hondros


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  • #2
    Raging_Ninja
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    The Browning is almost a hundred years old, lots of nations have them, including Middle-eastern countries.


  • #3
    OS119
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    whydave wrote: »
    Could this be the pictures of the 'Aid' to be given by NATO in Africa's latest civil war ,though the Libyan Army would have mostly Warsaw pact weapons ?

    answered your own question there - any infantry-type weapons NATO slipped in through the back door would be weapons that, by and large, the opposition would be familiar with. give them an M-16 and they'd need to be trained on its safe use, they'd have to keep an intact supply line of 5.56mm ammunition, magazines, cleaning kits, spare parts etc.. give them a boat load of knocked off AK-47's and they will probably know how to use it, they can pick up 7.62 short anywhere, as well as not needing to worry about making sure the magazine they find in the ground will fit into the weapon.

    the 'weapons' that NATO will supply them with are far more useful than a load of rifles that some half-trained muppet can shoot himself with - GPS recievers, satellite radios with NATO's phone number, maps, ground unit identification panels (the big orange sheets of plastic that should stop you getting whacked by friendly A2G assets) and Ground Laser Designators.

    but not a load of MILAN ATGW, oh no, nothing to see here. (walks away nonchalantly eating an apple...)


  • #4
    Manic Moran
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    The MILANs were provided to the rebels by Qatar, not NATO.

    Libya was an equal-opportunity purchasor, but was confined to WarPac purchases after annoying the West the mid-1980s. Note, for example, the Italian Palmaria self-propelled howitzers or Otomat missiles mounted on the French-built La Combattante fast attack craft. Firearms like FAL would not be unusual there.

    Plus you have spoils which may have been accumulated, such as the 106mm recoilless rifles captured in the Toyota War, which have shown up in pictures recently.

    NTM


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