Homemade ISIS fighting vehicles

[Jon]

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":




Toyota dump truck rocket launcher:


Mobile air traffic control station:


Libyan police truck:


































































Previously:

Homemade Syrian weapons