Thanks for this very useful footage. I particularly appreciate your making a point of getting close-ups of the markings on the crates and weapons. The MANPADS are of particular interest to me as it is generally difficult to get good images of the crates.
Also, the item at 1:00 (9M342) is not just an IGLA but an SA-24 IGLA-S, the absolute latest Russian MANPAD. Not something I like seeing just lying about the place.
The 9M31M are Strela-1 missiles for the Nato designated SA-9. BRDM-2 based surface to air missile launcher. The amount of SA-7s found definitely worries me though, I'm sure there were quite a few who took advantage of the influx of arms.
We didn't find any actual Kahtuysha rockets. I'm using the Libyan colloquialism. They call FFARs (rocket pod rockets) Kahtuyshas. If you want to get anywhere talking about that weapons system in Libya you must say Kahtuysha.
@bitrex They are actually Iglas. I had misidentified them (and may still be). Wait until you see the video of the scavengers collecting them. I was trying to get 'on the down low' video of a guy gathering hand grenades and he saw me filming him and instead of getting angry or running he went: "HEY! HEY! (huge grin, holds up two handfuls of grenades) ALLAH HU ACKBAR!" - He was just a poor man looking forward to feeding his fucking family so don't read into it too much. This is just how Africa is.
@bitrex The missiles in the boxes are Strelas, but again I could be misidentifying them. I encourage google, fas.org, and other such websites. This project is about the power of you.
@orac22 So you arrived in Libya back in June? What have you been up to while you've been there? Which areas did you visit and who with? All your adventures sound very interesting, I'd love more detail.
@libyadude And don't worry, you will! Just watch the old videos or you won't recognize 'familiar faces' when they appear in the new ones. Some of the changes are very startling. The doctor who I interviewed while under heavy shelling in Dafnia, for example, was next seen by me in Sirte wearing a cowboy hat and carrying an AK-47. Still in the same blue scrubs. After the Misurata ambulance massacre things were never the same.
@libyadude I didn't film that. It happened while I was getting another load of medical supplies from the US in the first half of August, iirc. Al Jazeera covered the story. An entire ambulance crew from Misurata were dragged from their vehicle and shot to death in a brutal execution by Qaddafi loyalists during the Tripoli uprising. After that many doctors chose to work while armed as a matter of necessity. These guys did crazy brave things during this war. They always had to be at the very front
Thanks for this very useful footage. I particularly appreciate your making a point of getting close-ups of the markings on the crates and weapons. The MANPADS are of particular interest to me as it is generally difficult to get good images of the crates.
Also, the item at 1:00 (9M342) is not just an IGLA but an SA-24 IGLA-S, the absolute latest Russian MANPAD. Not something I like seeing just lying about the place.
Nonproliferator 4 months ago
@Nonproliferator Did you mean 3:10?
orac22 3 months ago
The 9M31M are Strela-1 missiles for the Nato designated SA-9. BRDM-2 based surface to air missile launcher. The amount of SA-7s found definitely worries me though, I'm sure there were quite a few who took advantage of the influx of arms.
Tora044 4 months ago
We didn't find any actual Kahtuysha rockets. I'm using the Libyan colloquialism. They call FFARs (rocket pod rockets) Kahtuyshas. If you want to get anywhere talking about that weapons system in Libya you must say Kahtuysha.
orac22 4 months ago
Those SAM-7s should be hitting the black market any day now...
bitrex 4 months ago
@bitrex They are actually Iglas. I had misidentified them (and may still be). Wait until you see the video of the scavengers collecting them. I was trying to get 'on the down low' video of a guy gathering hand grenades and he saw me filming him and instead of getting angry or running he went: "HEY! HEY! (huge grin, holds up two handfuls of grenades) ALLAH HU ACKBAR!" - He was just a poor man looking forward to feeding his fucking family so don't read into it too much. This is just how Africa is.
orac22 4 months ago
@bitrex The missiles in the boxes are Strelas, but again I could be misidentifying them. I encourage google, fas.org, and other such websites. This project is about the power of you.
orac22 4 months ago
Those missiles at the start ALMOST look like a smaler, Russian AGM-65.
89Sunbird 4 months ago
@89Sunbird I apologize for not providing a better scale reference.
orac22 4 months ago
@orac22 So you arrived in Libya back in June? What have you been up to while you've been there? Which areas did you visit and who with? All your adventures sound very interesting, I'd love more detail.
libyadude 4 months ago
@libyadude Just watch the older videos. They're all on my channel. I documented the entire thing.
orac22 4 months ago
@libyadude Guile isn't necessary here. I'm not hiding anything.
orac22 4 months ago
@orac22 I'm just interested in hearing more about your travels in Libya, stuff you've posted so far is fascinating.
libyadude 4 months ago
@libyadude And don't worry, you will! Just watch the old videos or you won't recognize 'familiar faces' when they appear in the new ones. Some of the changes are very startling. The doctor who I interviewed while under heavy shelling in Dafnia, for example, was next seen by me in Sirte wearing a cowboy hat and carrying an AK-47. Still in the same blue scrubs. After the Misurata ambulance massacre things were never the same.
orac22 4 months ago
@orac22 Sorry to be crap, I've been looking through the videos and I can't find the one about the ambulance massacre, could you link it?
libyadude 4 months ago
@libyadude I didn't film that. It happened while I was getting another load of medical supplies from the US in the first half of August, iirc. Al Jazeera covered the story. An entire ambulance crew from Misurata were dragged from their vehicle and shot to death in a brutal execution by Qaddafi loyalists during the Tripoli uprising. After that many doctors chose to work while armed as a matter of necessity. These guys did crazy brave things during this war. They always had to be at the very front
orac22 4 months ago