Syrian Armed Forces (Photos, Video)

Pro-Syrian Gov Druze fighters fighting Jihadist near Hadar, Quneitra

R-330P 'Pyramid' - Jammer in Syria....apparently a recent arrival in Syria



What it looks like with antenas deployed

Cyberspec wrote:R-330P 'Pyramid' - Jammer in Syria....apparently a recent arrival in Syria



What it looks like with antenas deployed

...A response to Israeli airstrikes?

magnumcromagnon wrote:...A response to Israeli airstrikes?

I don't think so....it's main role is to jam enemy comminunications

same pic as above but this one has a second image another MT-LBu variant which is believed to be a 1V14


SAA launching Fateh-110, Designated by SAA as M-600 "Tishreen" SSM




Soqour al-Sahara "Desert Hawks" member in a armed ATV (Anybody know what type of ATV this is?)


SAA "Jousting" T-72


Volunteers unloading meals for Soldiers in Damascus area, you can see locally armored T-72s and one Shilka in the background

Wow, look at this, among other things pictures of the mighty syrian export MiG-25PD! They are apparently not operational anymore, and sadly they haven't been replaced by MiG-31 as planned...
http://spioenkop.blogspot.co.uk/2015/06/fortress-t4-airbase-at-war.html

BTR 82 in action:

BTR-82A in the Syrian army

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IK0m9a6JJ80

Viktor wrote:BTR-82A in the Syrian army  

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IK0m9a6JJ80

Did you mean to post this in the multimedia forum?

Syrian Pantsir....they're usually pretty camera shy



http://s3.uploads.ru/qvidh.png

Abit of bright side view... Syrian soldier got married in...field conditions

SAA column pic taken via BMP lense near Palmyra.

NationalRus wrote:SOME GREAT footage from russian TV with syrian special forces in battle in damascus in harasta thats directly on the M5 highway leading from damascus to homs, latakaia etc., looks like the guys got some serious gear


i still have serious truoble identefing the sniper rifle, notmodels from accuracy international or stayer männlich that i looked up add up to it i even tought it might be a ORSIS but no model adds up also, so help me find the sniper rifle



better view of the rifle:




our russian PKP




working with a AGS

Ha, i knew there will be alot of arguing about the rifle when i saw the video first time, i just did Coz its unusal and unexpecting thing to see there.

It IS actually Accuracy International, just 2012. model which got new "Furniture". Arctic Warfare Magnum model to be precise in this video, .308 Magnum i assume its less likely to be .300 Magnum.

Here you can see the "furniture" without being applied on the gun:



Or video if you prefer:

AI AWM.

So were did it come from? Dead rebel? Black market?

Zivo wrote:

AI AWM.

So were did it come from? Dead rebel? Black market?

Well my guess would be Russia. They actually post 2008. obtained certain amount of these guns for MVD and some Specnaz units, i assume some batch was during or after 2012. since they as of 2014. discontinued additional orders. And taking in count they are replacing them with own models i guess they became surplus.

Militarov wrote:

Zivo wrote:

AI AWM.

So were did it come from? Dead rebel? Black market?

Well my guess would be Russia. They actually post 2008. obtained certain amount of these guns for MVD and some Specnaz units, i assume some batch was during or after 2012. since they as of 2014. discontinued additional orders. And taking in count they are replacing them with own models i guess they became surplus.

Just did a quick search to find some Russian variants and came across this FSB modification... damn good guess you made.



It's not a dead ringer, but it's not hard to imagine they might have been customized in the same armory.

Good find gents, here's a little extra from the front.

ZU-23-2 light armored technical

SyAAF Su-22M-4:


Su-24MK2:

Zivo wrote:

Militarov wrote:

Zivo wrote:

AI AWM.

So were did it come from? Dead rebel? Black market?

Well my guess would be Russia. They actually post 2008. obtained certain amount of these guns for MVD and some Specnaz units, i assume some batch was during or after 2012. since they as of 2014. discontinued additional orders. And taking in count they are replacing them with own models i guess they became surplus.

Just did a quick search to find some Russian variants and came across this FSB modification...



It's not a dead ringer, but it's not hard to imagine they might have been customized in the same armory.

Yeah thats from that youtube video in Dagestan.


Thats one of the most famous sightings of AWM in Russia, there is another one in documentary show Poligion, when they visit some recon specnaz unit, you will excuse me for not remembering witch one. Well thing with military orders is that guns or any equipment is mostly delivered for few years, meanwhile some changes in tooling or design change and you get often 2-3 same items, but still different in some way. Also its very well documented that Russian soldiers in abit specialised units often customise weapons to their likings.


Somewhat like this.

Can anybody ID the helmet, camo uniform?

its multicam

Could it be possible that these guys may actually be Chechen spetsnaz units? Is there a video of them talking?

Zivo wrote:Could it be possible that these guys may actually be Chechen spetsnaz units? Is there a video of them talking?

yes they talked perfectly in arabic in the news video, i first also tought becouse i didnt saw such pics from syrian special forces with modern western gear that they might be some of ours but no they asked the sniper and he spoke arabic

the russian translation is loud but you still can hear him talk if you concentrate on his voice

5:06
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=preEIDWvRNw

Siempre_Leal wrote:Can anybody ID the helmet, camo uniform?

Uniform could be Russian MultiCam version, i belive tho its more common in MVD/FSB use than actual army.





When its about helmet it looks like fairly easy obtainable Ops-Core helmet, just in multicam scheme