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Improvised armored vehicles from Syria
Frenchy
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Posted: Thursday, December 26, 2019 - 02:19 AM UTC
How do you say "hillbilly" in Arabic ?





















This one is from Iraq and I have a deja-vu feeling about it...





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M4A3E8Easy8
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Posted: Thursday, December 26, 2019 - 03:26 AM UTC
You have to wonder about keeping those engines cool, no vents on most of them and that extra weight....
KoSprueOne
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Posted: Thursday, December 26, 2019 - 04:38 AM UTC
Great, thanks for sharing. I can finally build the Academy M1151 kit patterned after the top two images.

Is this possibly a Silverado?
https://www.almasdarnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/Syrian-Army-armored-vehicles-in-eastern-Homs.jpg

MTVR truck?
https://mobile.almasdarnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/YPG-armored-truck.jpg




Frenchy
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Posted: Thursday, December 26, 2019 - 04:59 AM UTC
MTVR truck?
https://mobile.almasdarnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/YPG-armored-truck.jpg[/quote]

I guess so. Here's another view :



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KoSprueOne
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Posted: Thursday, December 26, 2019 - 06:09 AM UTC



My browser is not allowing me to view this image. It must be 'dirty'
https://daysjapan.net/e/award2016/images/04_5/s07.jpg




Frenchy
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Posted: Thursday, December 26, 2019 - 06:35 AM UTC
Two more views (from other sources )





More pics of the captured equipment exhibition in Moscow :

https://www.recomonkey.com/Newsfeed/Exhibition-of-Captured-Weaponry-Equipment-from-Syria/

including this one



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panamadan
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Posted: Thursday, December 26, 2019 - 07:29 AM UTC
https://dumbanddumber.fandom.com/wiki/Harry%27s_Dog_Van
Frenchy
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Posted: Thursday, December 26, 2019 - 08:23 PM UTC








The very same MTVR on Youtube :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uhadYBo0SSc

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LonCray
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Posted: Friday, December 27, 2019 - 12:38 AM UTC
What did they cover that MTVR with, Lincoln Logs?
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