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
Can we call the people using this "truckaneers"?
this post was submitted on 29 May 2024
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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.
This sounds more reasonable than the original NonCredible article title
This model can fire large ordnance such as water heaters or oxygen cylinders weighing as much as 661 pounds.
bruh
We saw the Mythbusters episode- I ain't getting smeared by a water heater.
homemade pirate cannon
That's homemade? Must be one hell of cool home
More likely assembled in some auto workshop from looted historic artifacts
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.
At least they're sensible enough to fire it from a distance.
... or learned the hard way
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.
This isn't IS though.
That seat now has shell shock.
I thought that was a dead person at first.
Now put it in the bed of a Toyota Hilux!
That's gotta be against the Geneva Conventions
AI fake it to look like this:
