Tag Archives: SALW

9K310 MANPADS captured from rebels in South Sudan

February 1, 2014 · by · in Ammunition & Ordnance, Arms & Munitions ID, Small Arms & Light Weapons · Leave a comment

  This post originally appeared at The Hoplite, the ARES company blog.  Seen at the bottom centre in the photo above is a 9K310 Igla-1 (NATO designation: SA-16 Gimlet) man-portable air defence system (MANPADS). The weapons pictured were purportedly captured by soldiers of the Uganda People’s Defence Force (UPDF) stationed in South Sudan to protect key […]

MUJAO fighters with 9K32 or 9K32M MANPADS in Mali

March 22, 2013 · by · in Arms & Munitions ID, Mali, Small Arms & Light Weapons · 2 Comments

This screenshot, a frame taken from the YouTube video seen below, shows a fighter of the Mouvement pour le Tawhîd et du Jihad en Afrique de l’Ouest (MUJAO) in Mali holding a 9K32 or 9K32M Man Portable Air Defence System (MANPADS). From the blurry video it is difficult to determine whether this is a 9K32 (NATO reproting […]

Update: RPG-7 Projectiles in Syria

October 14, 2012 · by · in Ammunition & Ordnance, Arms & Munitions ID, Small Arms & Light Weapons, Syria · 7 Comments

What is probably an Iranian tandem HEAT projectile. Photo: Lens Young Homsi. In the weeks since I published my first piece on RPG-7 projectiles that have been sighted in Syria, a number of people have responded to my request for further material. As C.J. Chivers notes in this post: “The fairly small circle of competent and […]