A dark but fascinating look at homemade fighting vehicles being used in various conflicts in the Middle East.
The backstory here is that Tanks-Encyclopedia.com has been indexing the homemade fighting vehicles found in the Middle East, in the hopes of creating a database for historians to access in the future. After 8 months of gathering images and videos from numerous sources (Twitter accounts, foreign news clips, now-deleted websites and videos), they've released a 2 gig image dump with hundreds of images and video clips of homemade fighting vehicles. Some of the images have been bouncing around the web for a while, but many of them look new.
Wikipedia has a decent page documenting ISIS's armaments. Their vehicles are mostly captured from other fighting forces, and are often altered into technicals - improvised fighting vehicles.
Here's a selection of photos from the hundreds of images and videos in the file dump. These are a mix of gun trucks, IFVs (Improvised Fighting Vehicles), and VBIEDs (Vehicle-Borne Improvised Explosive Devices). Mostly vehicles from ISIS and miscellaneous anti-ISIS factions, but also some Free Syrian Army stuff. Some of the photos can't be reliably sourced.
Captioned as "assault brick":
https://s3-us-west-1.amazonaws.com/h...technical7.jpg
https://s3-us-west-1.amazonaws.com/h...technical1.jpg
Toyota dump truck rocket launcher:
https://s3-us-west-1.amazonaws.com/h...technical5.jpg
Mobile air traffic control station:
https://s3-us-west-1.amazonaws.com/h...echnical20.jpg
Libyan police truck:
https://s3-us-west-1.amazonaws.com/h...technical6.jpg
https://s3-us-west-1.amazonaws.com/h...technical2.jpg
https://s3-us-west-1.amazonaws.com/h...technical3.jpg
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https://s3-us-west-1.amazonaws.com/h...echnical10.jpg
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https://s3-us-west-1.amazonaws.com/h...echnical29.jpg
https://s3-us-west-1.amazonaws.com/h...echnical30.jpg
https://s3-us-west-1.amazonaws.com/h...echnical31.jpg
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Previously:
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...8809#post88163