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Syrian rebels strike back with the HELL CANNON: Aleppo fighters build devastating homemade weapon
UK Daily Mail ^ | December 4, 2014 | Jennifer Newton

Posted on 12/04/2014 7:50:27 AM PST by C19fan

Firing improvised explosives with a range of around a mile, this is the homemade weapon of choice of the Free Syrian Army known as the 'hell cannon'. The cannon has been widely used during the conflict in besieged cities such as Aleppo and usually fires out highly modified propane gas cylinders. The improvised launcher is often used by the rebels as they only have access to small arms such as machine guns and have to make their own weapons and ammunition.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Military/Veterans
KEYWORDS: syria; war
Probably more dangerous to the user than the intended target. During the Israeli War of Independence some guy there developed a home made mortar.
1 posted on 12/04/2014 7:50:27 AM PST by C19fan
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To: C19fan

Can’t wait to see when one of those babies “malfunction”.


2 posted on 12/04/2014 7:54:13 AM PST by b4its2late (A Liberal is a person who will give away everything he doesn't own.)
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To: C19fan

Somebody needs to go down to the 99 cent store and buy these guys come funnels.

(Love the ten foot long sniper rifle!)


3 posted on 12/04/2014 7:57:32 AM PST by BenLurkin (This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both.)
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I guess they have been reading Black Book 1 & 2 by US Army
or just history books about some of the weapons UK was putting into service in 1940

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_anti-invasion_preparations_of_the_Second_World_War


4 posted on 12/04/2014 8:08:56 AM PST by Bidimus1
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To: C19fan

Watching them handle nitrates with their bare hands makes me wonder how they handle the nitrate headaches.


5 posted on 12/04/2014 8:18:20 AM PST by dangerdoc ((this space for rent))
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To: Bidimus1

more..

http://militaryhistorynow.com/2014/03/31/dads-armaments-six-impromptu-weapons-of-the-british-home-guard/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smith_Gun


6 posted on 12/04/2014 8:19:42 AM PST by Bidimus1
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ping


7 posted on 12/04/2014 8:22:32 AM PST by IncPen (None of this would be happening if John Boehner were alive...)
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To: dangerdoc

Nitro Glycerin gives you headaches, are they handling that (it’s a vasodilator)? Not aware that nitrates do, they’re used as food additives even...


8 posted on 12/04/2014 8:25:33 AM PST by Axenolith (Government blows, and that which governs least, blows least...)
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To: C19fan

“You tell ‘em I’m comin’ and I’m bringin hell cannon with me!”


9 posted on 12/04/2014 8:55:16 AM PST by TurboZamboni (Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.-JFK)
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To: BenLurkin
Somebody needs to go down to the 99 cent store and buy these guys come funnels.

How's that again?

10 posted on 12/04/2014 9:07:43 AM PST by 1raider1
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Damn! That looks like fun! Think I’ll build one myself, so I can shoot it and holler, “ALLAH FUBAR! ALLAH FUBAR!”


11 posted on 12/04/2014 9:25:16 AM PST by G-Bear (I am NOT a "vigilante." I am an "undocumented police officer.")
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During the Israeli War of Independence some guy there developed a home made mortar.

During that war, not many, if any, in the West wouldn't sell the Israelis ammo - so they imported brass lipstick casings and made their own.

When your back is against the wall, you can get pretty inventive. Sorta like Samuel Johnson's quip “. . . when a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.”

12 posted on 12/04/2014 10:50:18 AM PST by Oatka (This is America. Assimilate or evaporate.)
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