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What do you do when you don't have a lot to fight with? You improvise!
The Libyan rebels have shown some great examples of this. I just came across this one an felt the need to share.
They apparently took UB-16 rocket pods from MIG helicopters and strapped them to pick-up trucks. Takes the idea of a technical to a whole new level.There's also a video of them in action.
And they have a workshop to manufacture the contraptions:
They seem to work okay, although I doubt they have any aiming mechanism. However, give it proper aiming, and this looks like a semi-decent light combat vehicle.
Does anyone else have good examples of improvised weaponry?
Any chip tunning for the pickups?
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You do what you gotta do, but I doubt the accuracy will be adequate for anything except to make the rebels feel better.
These guys have welders, obviously. Weld the pods on a squat steel tower and give it an adjustable elevation mechanism. Azimuth can be done with the pickup, but for point defense, it's be nice to have an adjustable az through 30 degrees or so, so the pickup can be parked behind a revetment. Keep the elevation lower for greater accuracy, but shorter range.
50 rockets used to dial in the device would be well spent.
Here is another technical with a different type of rocketlauncher mounted sideways. This time it looks like they made a slight error in the placement of the launcher :P
Also, mounting it sideways would mean that to target the enemy, you'd be presenting the biggest target you can with a vehicle like that by parking it sideways.
I saw a video recently of the rebels firing a big rocket the wrong way - back into their own lines. Scary.
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Should we be bombing them to protect civilians? No way can they be seriously aiming at government positions.
To sit down with these men and deal with them as the representatives of an enlightened and civilized people is to deride ones own dignity and to invite the disaster of their treachery - General Matthew Ridgway
rotflmao!!!Originally Posted by doktor
Saw a pickup with a 12-tube (?) artillery rocket launcher on the news yesterday. It would fire 1 rocket, stop a few seconds, fire another, stop, fire another... and every time it fired, the pickup would shake like hell! Acuracy? Forget target area. I began to wonder which country would be hit...
12-tubes on the pickups are standard Type 63. Accuracy is often called abysmal, but in the end it's not really all that bad. About on par with a heavy mortar, both range-, yield- and accuracy-wise. Of course, like mortars, they're supposed to be used in groups and preferably from a single, well-calculated position...
The only way you could conceivably aim that thing is by using a map and a compass. After first testing how much range you get out of them in ground-to-ground...
Last edited by kato; 07 Apr 11, at 17:21.
Definitely giving the idea of a technical to a whole new level. What worries me is where the rockets hit?, What if the recoil of the Rocket pod hits a friendly? But still, using technicals as MLRSs is very creative, excellent way of improvising.
I also got some info that the Libyan rebels outfitted some flatbeds with soviet made ZPUs, Zu-23-2s and low and behold: Katyusha rocket launchers.
Last edited by Durian10; 19 May 11, at 21:54.
Can you please pass da pork and flate?
More Lybian innovation!
They built what appears to be a little mine detector.
The one you see is a decoy.
These two pics should show the "accuracy" of the UB-16 in the first post:
Wow, you can clearly see each rocket moving in a diferent direction!
Let's see: one rocket hits Bengazhi, one hits Tunisia, one hits Tripoli...
Yeah, but the flames on the side of the truck gives them a whole bunch of cool points!
Seriously, though, it takes some pretty big brass ones to do what they are doing and I wish them well.
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Soon to become an improvised weapon. I believe that's a Shipunov 2A42 from a BMP but I'm not sure. Think they'll stick it on a pickup?
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