Tag Archives: crowdsourcing

Small Arms of the 2011 Libyan Conflict – Cataloguing the Weapons of War

December 12, 2011 · by · in Ammunition & Ordnance, Arms & Munitions ID, Libya, Small Arms & Light Weapons · 6 Comments

As some of my readers know, I have been undertaking a rather large research project over these past few months, inspired by my recent articles on the AK-103 assault rifles that have been seen in Libya. I am endeavouring to build a ‘complete-as-possible’ database of the various small arms used in the recent Libyan conflict. […]

Crowdsourcing Weapon IDs

December 6, 2011 · by · in Small Arms & Light Weapons · 1 Comment

Tear Gas ID is a wordpress site that is based on the idea of crowdsourcing identifications for less-lethal chemical weapons remnants found during the course of protests and government actions in Egypt. So far, the site has been responsible for IDing a variety of weapons (such as in the photo from the site, above) from […]