This next video shows a RBG-6 grenade launcher in Al Khaldiyah, Homs, north of the city centre, being used by a new group, Katiba al-Samoud - Janud Allah, which appears to be aligned with the FSA
Here we see a RPG-22 being used by what appears to be the same group in the above video at an unknown location in Homs
This final video shows a M60 recoilless gun being used at near the Lebanese border, near Al Qusayr, south-west of Homs
All four videos were posted in that last two days, and I've been unable to find earlier videos showing Croatian weapons in the Homs region, so it appears these are all new arrivals in the Homs region, and it will be interesting if these weapons have the same significant effect in Homs as they've had in Daraa.
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"if these weapons have the same significant effect in Homs as they've had in Daraa."
ReplyDeleteThose of us uninitiated, you could describe what happened in Daraa? I could go on and seek for other posts from Daraa, but lazily I now assume it has tipped the balance in favor of FSA groups; or perhaps it set the FSA groups on equal footing with regime in area? Thus not really changing the balance.
The situation in Daraa was quite different from the situation in Aleppo, Idlib, and Deir Ez Zor where opposition groups were capturing increasing numbers of military bases and using the captured equipment (including tanks, artillery, and AA weapons) to capture more bases and territory. In Daraa the opposition fighters were more poorly armed, relying on more basic equipment, and not capturing significant amounts of weapons.
DeleteThe newly acquired Croatian weapons have allowed the opposition groups in Daraa to start capturing bases and heavier equipment, and this will allow them to capture larger bases.