Posted on 12/14/2016 2:16:31 PM PST by Brad from Tennessee
Islamic State militants have been producing weapons on a scale and sophistication which matches national military forces and have standardized production across their self-styled caliphate, an arms monitoring group said on Wednesday.
Conflict Armament Research (CAR) said the jihadist group had a "robust supply chain" of raw materials from Turkey, and the technical precision of its work meant that it could not be described as "improvised" weapons production.
"Although production facilities employ a range of non-standard materials and chemical explosive precursors, the degree of organization, quality control, and inventory management indicates a complex, centrally controlled industrial production system," it said in a report following visits last month to six facilities once operated by Islamic State in eastern Mosul. . .
. . .CAR, which identifies and tracks weapons and ammunitions in conflicts, said the facilities it visited were part of a system producing weapons according to precise guidelines issued by a central authority.
Production included a monitoring system with regular, detailed reports on production rates and quality that helped ensure standardization - usually to the tenth of a millimeter - across the jihadists' once sprawling territory in Iraq and neighboring Syria. . .
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Thanks Turkey. Some NATO ally you are!
Having spent a career in weapons production, I find this disturbing as it adds a whole new level of unexpected complexity to ISIS. Having said that, the source materials should have been traced and stopped long before they got to Syrian territory. The fact they weren’t indicates that Turkey has a secret policy of helping ISIS. This is unexpectedly stupid of the Turks as their country is vulnerable to the same sort of civil war and they are, in effect, training the fighters for that coming conflict. There are at least four groups in Turkey who want their own country. Turkey could become another Lebanon. Iran will certainly help the Turkish rebels because that will leave them as the preeminent power in the region.
Will major patent violatons mean that an army of lawyers will now be descending on the Middle East?
This may be the way finally to destroy ISIS.
“A lawyer with his briefcase can steal more than a hundred men with guns.” -Tom Hagen
Head space?
Oh, it’s within a tenth of a millimeter...
Right.
I would expect Shiite Iran to try to undermine both Sunni Turkey and Sunni Saudi Arabia.
And getting Infidel help from Russia is a bonus. -Tom
“And we gave these rebels of Obama all manner of weapons. “
Because giving somebody weapons and them building their own to the high standards indicated are orders of magnitude apart. You can give weapons to savages and they’ll use them just fine. But don’t expect unsophisticated savages to build those weapons. The level of education, training and infrastructure implied is staggering...and, at least by me, unexpected.
Facilities since moved to Syria and southern Turkey ...
Which military?
“Conflict Armament Research (CAR) said the jihadist group had a “robust supply chain” of raw materials from Turkey”
Dare we suspect it was with a wink and a nod from Erdogan, who would rather go after Kurds in Syria than get rid of ISIS.
Go on You Tube and look at these so called improvised weapons. Give me a welder, a chop saw, and some kids to scavenged pipe/steel from the ruins...I can build two-three mortar tubes per day.
If Turkey’s support of ISIS is a secret, it’s one of the worst kept. Turkey has been selling oil for ISIS the entire time, has harbored the terrorists, and has provided safe transportation routes. Either way, the sheer brutality shown by ISIS proves only the bias of the West. We see the savagery and assume these are backward degenerates, but ISIS is composed of men from varied socio-economic and educational backgrounds. Evil isn’t synonymous with ignorance, but Islam is.
Mosul was Saddam’s hometown. I’m sure they are including Tabuk Arms which was built for Saddam by Zastava. It doesn’t take Super Villians to make villagers show up for work they have been doing in their neighborhood for forty freakin years.
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