Adham, Calibre Obscura, Middle Brit and Miles get together on our third instalment of the Silah Report Podcast (which can be found on Soundcloud). Read this post along with listening to the Podcast in order to hear what we are all talking about in detail!
Adham brought this photograph up of an Egyptian security paramilitary unit with an AK101 rifle, not too many are seen in Egypt.This was a cache uncovered in the current fighting in Sinai, a Lanchester submachine gun taken from an IS-Sinai cell. Adham shares this image of an Egyptian sniper with a still unidentified rifle.This is a Retay handgun that Adham found in Syria for sale.Adham shares a Luger that appears to have been exported to Syrian forces by East Germany.
A fascinating piece of history on sale in #Idlib for $400.
This 102 year old Luger (1917) was made by DWM during WW1, likely for the German Army, but was used by police all the way up to the end of WW2, at which point it was captured by the Russians, and stored.
Cᴀʟɪʙʀᴇ Oʙsᴄᴜʀᴀ (@CalibreObscura)A fascinating piece of history on sale in #Idlib for $400.
This 102 year old Luger (1917) was made by DWM during WW1, likely for the German Army, but was used by police all the way up to the end of WW2, at which point it was captured by the Russians, and stored.
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Calibre shares a similar one that he also found in Idib. He mentions a program where the Syrians purchased a large quantity of Lugers in the 1950s-1970s from East Germany.Adham shares a Steyr handgun that has a modified grip to fit in.Miles shares a Turkish Retay in Kobane that was for sale as a “Turkish Police Gun”This is an example of a blank-firing handgun that has been converted to fire live rounds, but blew up instead.The next several photographs are all of a Glock that we still can’t figure out the origin of, its a fabricated piece in the hands of an SDF fighter.Calibre mentions that much on here isn’t original to a Colt 603, while the pistol grip and This is an M16 platform Middle Brit shares some Sudanese soldiers with a Sudanese manufactured variant of the Chinese CQ.Is it a Tabuk or a Yugo M70?Some markings on an Iraqi Tabuk.A Chinese CQ being sold in Fu’aChinese NP-20 in Syria.
Abdullah joins in with “Not a 56-2. Its a 56-2 stock though.The trunion has an angled cant, the Chimese are straight”.
The MARINEZ G3 in Yemen…Calibre tells us about the origin of these rifles, manufactured in 1982-1983, for the Somali Army in a quantity of 20,000.
This article on ARES goes into some detail on their diversion into CAR.
Middle Brit talks about some of the issues in Sudan, taking us into looking at Sudanese connections. The Sudanese military-industrial capacity is fairly advanced and not much has ever been written about it.
A Sudanese officer at a Bright Star exercise in Egypt. This image from Wikipedia, notice the apparent Bren bipods clamped to the handguards.
Smuggled from Sudan captured from ISIS
Adham sharing some hand grenades that might be from Sudan. Calibre and Middle Brit talk extensively about comparisons between Libya and Sudan.Adham shared this image of M14 rifles in use with IS in Egypt.
