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The 4th Armoured Division's armour upgrades: Products of a Four Year War
By Stijn Mitzer and Joost OliemansFollowing local experiments with spaced and slat armour on T-72AVs and BMP-2s, the 4th Armoured Division initiated a small-scale upgrade programme for its armour in...
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Fortress T4: An Airbase at War
By Stijn Mitzer and Joost OliemansThe Islamic State's offensive in Central Syria has not only allowed the fighters of the Islamic State to expand their operations into areas previously out of reach,...
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North Korean HT-16PGJ MANPADS in Syria
By Stijn Mitzer and Joost OliemansSubject to severe sanctions for almost a decade, the proliferation of North Korean conventional armament on the international arms market is an often underreported...
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No end in sight: Failed Tabqa offensive reveals underlying shortcomings of...
The regime's recent offensive against the Islamic State aimed at clearing large parts of desert in Syria's Raqqa Governorate of Islamic State presence took a drastic turn when a counter-attack spread...
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Vehicles and equipment captured and destroyed by the Islamic State inside...
This list only includes captured vehicles and equipment of which photo or videographic evidence is available. Therefore, the amount of equipment captured and destroyed by the Islamic State is...
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Replenishing the Stocks: Russian deliveries of T-62Ms and BMP-1s reach Syria
Following several rumours concerning the delivery of new armoured fighting vehicles to the Syrian Arab Army, images coming out of the war-torn country have now confirmed such a delivery did indeed take...
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Suicide drones: The Islamic State's newest threat?
The battle for Mosul has entered its seventh month of fierce fighting for the largest city in the hands of the Islamic State, with the most difficult fight for Mosul's Old City still to be fought....
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That Time Soviet Howitzers Were Used as Anti-Aircraft Guns by the Islamic State
The Islamic State's rise to the status of one of the most sophisticated designated terrorist groups ever to exist has been accompanied by an unprecedented level of ingenuity, especially considering the...
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Sanctions Busting, SyrianAir acquires A340 passenger jet via Iran
SyrianAir can look back on a turbulent six years of operations serving a country thorn apart by Civil War. Heavily impacted by the implementation of sanctions against Syria in 2012, preventing the...
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Probe-and-drogue, the story of Libya's ill-fated in-flight refuelling programme
Libya's aerial refuelling programme has only been rarely reported on since its inception in the late eighties, and suffered from a series of setbacks that ultimately led to the abandonment of the...
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Vehicles and equipment captured by the Islamic State inside Syria until...
This list only includes captured vehicles and equipment of which photo or videographic evidence is available. Therefore, the amount of equipment captured by the Islamic State may be higher than...
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Pre-war Yemeni fighting vehicles
This list only includes vehicles and equipment in service with the Yemeni Army before the Houthi takeover in Yemen in 2014/2015. Vehicles and equipment acquired and created during the ongoing conflict...
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A Forgotten Army: Transnistria's Little Tank Buster That Could
Transnistria, officially known as the Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic (PMR), is a breakaway state in Eastern Europe that has remained in the shadows ever since its self-proclaimed independence as a...
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Islamic State captures Ayyash weapons depots in largest arms haul of Syrian...
The Syrian Civil War has seen a range of major arms hauls by various parties as weapons depots get overrun and in many cases simply abandoned by retreating forces. The capture of Regiment 121, Brigade...
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Another One Bites the Dust: Major arms depot falls to Islamic State
Just over a year after capturing Deir ez-Zor's Ayyash weapon depot in the largest arms haul of the Syrian Civil War, the Islamic State has once again got its hands on massive quantities of ammunition...
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A rare species: Cuba's David Infantry Mobility Vehicles exported to Angola
Cuba is well known for its former leader Fidel Castro, communism and its renowned cigars, exporting the latter two to numerous countries throughout the world. In contrast, its role as an arms exporter...
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The Ballad of Abu Hajaar
A video obtained by Jake Hanrahan and uploaded by VICE News on the 27th of April 2016 shows off spectacular footage taken by the headcam of an Islamic State fighter as he and his comrades fight their...
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Cuban Fighting Vehicles
Notes:- Click on the equipment to get a picture of them in Cuban service.- If several configurations of a vehicle with one designation are known, they are added as such.Abbrevations:- CBAF (Carro...
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Houthi Drone and Missile Handbook
This list only includes equipment confirmed to be in service with Houthi militants in Yemen or interdicted on the way to Yemen. The goal of this list is to comprehensively catalogue the current...
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These are the Do-It-Yourself APCs of the YPG
The YPG is well known for operating a large fleet of Do-It-Yourself (DIY) armoured fighting vehicles (AFVs) and other up-armoured battle monstrosities throughout the Northern Syrian theatre of...
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