SYRIA'S DIRTY WEAPONS_ Revealed: 12 most deadly weapons of Assad's arsenal

Revealed: 12 most deadly weapons of Assad's arsenal

Syria’s "Dirty Dozen" most deadly weapons have been revealed ahead of a meeting of governments and NGOs next week.

By Mark Oliver, Josie Ensor and Tom Witherow
10:00AM BST 23 Sep 2013


Explosive weapons have killed and injured tens of thousands of people in Syria. They are responsible for about 40 per cent of deaths in the conflict. These are weapons that project blast and fragmentation effects around an area of detonation. They include rockets, mortars, tank shells and air-dropped bombs.

The Action On Armed Violence (AOAV) charity has released a report which details the shocking impact that conventional weapons are having on civilians.

The have produced a list of 12 of the deadliest weapons with the help of a weapon-spotter who trawled through countless videos from urban battlefields in Syria, taken since the crackdown on protests first began in 2011.

M240 mortar bomb The biggest mortar in the world. Weighing the same as an upright piano, the M240 was first used as part of the bombardment of Homs in February 2012.


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BM-21 Grad rocket which is designed to blanket an entire area with high explosives. The system can fire 40 unguided rockets in less than 20 seconds. It is an inherently indiscriminate weapon… the most popular rocket launcher in the world.

Type-63 Made in China, the Type-63 is a smaller system than the Grad. In the first two years of fighting in Syria, AOAV claim there were an average of 12 civilian deaths from every incident of rocket fire.

Frog-7 Selected by the report to represent the varied Scud-like missiles that have been brought into play in recent months. Weighing over 2,500kg, and with an impact area of two square miles, these rockets have the capacity to wipe out whole communities

Sakr rockets Made in Egypt, they are unique as the only ground-launched cluster bomb in Syria. As the Sakr flies through the air it releases as many as 100 explosive submunitions, which scatter across an extremely wide area.

OFAB 100-120 The so-called “classic ‘dumb-bomb’” is one of three air-launched explosive weapons included in the list. They are bombs, made in the USSR, that can be dropped from up to 15km.

ODAB 500 PM This air-dropped bomb has a 30m-radius effective blast zone against infantry in the open.

S-25 rocket Only seen in Syria this summer, weighs 380kg, but has an explosive payload of 194 kilograms, the highest explosive-to-total ratio of any weapon in the ‘Dirty Dozen’.

2S3 Akatsiya This long range artillery shell can fire shells up to 11.5 miles.

D-30 A shell that has resulted in thousands of civilian casualties, firing fires 7-8 rounds per minute - the fastest of any towed artillery gun in Syria.

T-72 A tank that is believed to cause an average of 16 civilian casualties with each shell fired into Syria’s towns and cities. The shell that features in the list is capable of killing or injuring anyone in an area the size of Trafalgar Square in central London.

M-1943 a heavy mortar and one of the most commonly-used explosive weapons in the conflict. Both state and non-state actors make regular use of mortars, and according to the AOAV more than 94% of the time they are being fired in areas where civilians are at threat, such as schools and displacement camps.

Read more: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/syria/10326424/Revealed-12-most-deadly-weapons-of-Assads-arsenal.html




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