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Syrian Rebel forces using a homemade pirate cannon

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a5DJbPgrGWs

This shit is terrifying both on the operator side and the "receiving" side

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[-] Rayspekt@lemmy.world 40 points 1 month ago

Can we call the people using this "truckaneers"?

[-] DdCno1@kbin.social 38 points 1 month ago

I believe this is one of the famous Omar cannons:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Improvised_artillery_in_the_Syrian_civil_war#Omar_cannon

Easily one of the most sophisticated Syrian hell cannons. It's breach-loading, it has a recoil damper and it's mounted on a strong enough truck chassis. They are even seemingly hitting what they are actually intending to hit, which is far from guaranteed with these kinds of improvised artillery pieces.

[-] uservoid1@lemmy.world 11 points 1 month ago

This sounds more reasonable than the original NonCredible article title

[-] borari@lemmy.dbzer0.com 15 points 1 month ago

This model can fire large ordnance such as water heaters or oxygen cylinders weighing as much as 661 pounds.

bruh

[-] HappycamperNZ@lemmy.world 9 points 1 month ago

We saw the Mythbusters episode- I ain't getting smeared by a water heater.

[-] EmoDuck@sh.itjust.works 35 points 1 month ago

homemade pirate cannon

That's homemade? Must be one hell of cool home

[-] uservoid1@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago

More likely assembled in some auto workshop from looted historic artifacts

[-] DdCno1@kbin.social 16 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

This is built from scratch. There is no reason to use an antique cannon barrel for this - and it's not like those are lying around in Syria, whereas material and equipment to manufacture this is far easier to come by.

[-] Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 21 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

At least they're sensible enough to fire it from a distance.

[-] uservoid1@lemmy.world 23 points 1 month ago

... or learned the hard way

[-] Kyrgizion@lemmy.world 19 points 1 month ago

Judging from the amount of ISIS soldiers I've seen blow up the person behind them when firing heavy ordnance like manpads or bazookas, there must've been some first-hand experience first.

[-] DdCno1@kbin.social 4 points 1 month ago

This isn't IS though.

[-] Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.ee 18 points 1 month ago

That seat now has shell shock.

[-] Anticorp@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago

I thought that was a dead person at first.

[-] kersploosh@sh.itjust.works 12 points 1 month ago

Now put it in the bed of a Toyota Hilux!

[-] nuke@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 month ago

That's gotta be against the Geneva Conventions

[-] uservoid1@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

AI fake it to look like this:

this post was submitted on 29 May 2024
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