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March 12, 2014 · by · in Ammunition & Ordnance, Arms & Munitions ID, Syria · Leave a comment

Yuri Lyamin and I have written on the recent capture of Syrian Khaibar-1 rockets by the IDF. An extract is below, but you can read the full article here. One of the greatest mysteries of the Syrian military industrial complex is a 302 mm rocket system known as the Khaibar-1 (also referred to as the […]

UN report confirms use of CW in Syria

September 17, 2013 · by · in Ammunition & Ordnance, Arms & Munitions ID, EOD/UXO, Syria · 16 Comments

A brief post to note that the UN report on the now-confirmed chemical weapons (CW) attacks on Ghouta has been released. It appears that many commentators and analysts, including myself, were correct in pointing to the unknown munition detailed in my previous posts as the probable delivery mechanism for CW agent in these attacks. The […]