An unidentified unmanned aerial vehicle struck several oil tanks near the village of al-Hamran, located north of the town of Manbij in northern Syria. The village is located on the contact line between territories controlled by Turkish-backed forces and the Kurdish-dominated Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF).
According to local sources, the oil tankers were belonging to SDF-linked oil smugglers that sell oil looted from the US-controlled oil fields on the eastern bank of the Euphrates to Turkish-linked entities.
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Judging by the damage, it appears that the drone was using Buckshot . There are empty cartridges in one of the photo’s.
I think they are 18650 batteries. Samsung.
I think, you are RIGHT If you enlarge the pic it’s obviously.
I think, you are RIGHT If you enlarge the pic it’s obviously. https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/dcf8101dadd8a049c47d7e2c8df3eca752712e4522d9283d305ac5eff8122876.jpg
I have a bunch so recognise them from a mile,maybe FG was making a joke (??)
But they look actually very similar except for the missing brass bottom with the primer.
Yup,I use those too, so no confusion! By the way,is it “V” fau?
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Volker, V fau? I’ll delete prev comments.
That’s how it’s correctly pronounced…it’s my first name BTW.
I was trying to be subtle as to if you’re a German…
I vape, those are definitely 1850 batteries :-) Maybe they need the batteries to power some electronics on the drone.
I would think that explosives are the most efficient payload in terms of weight to damage payoff. With gunshots, you need to pay for the cost of the gun, barrel, trigger, magazine in addition to the ammo. With suicide drones, just the explosive and detonator.
Babbling on, but in WW2, the Germans had a difficult time arming their Me262 Jet. They tried a super large canon on the nose but it was too heavy. The best solution was just to have 12 rockets under the wings. You fly into the bomber formation, fire your rockets and escape. The rockets are nothing but a warhead and a self-contained charge. One hit can take down a bomber. It was very effective. Dumb Germans always do things the hard way first :-)
The problem with those cannons were the recoil that effected the structure of the wings and cause some times damages in tests.
Poor poor Thiefs, it disrupts the looting stealing plundering of the Syrian resources. I hope the Heroes behind the Police Operation should continue with even more force.
Yes, perhaps the Yanks will replace the tanker trucks with new ones:) Thieves Matter you know.
TLM!
Is there a Toyota Dealership nearby to raid and to loot?
So the SDF first complain about the Turks attacking them and then they sell them the Oil?
That’s the sum of it, yes.
It called Hypocrisy with Criminal Intent.
Actually I was wondering why the SAA didn’t use this tactic a long time ago because these rackety scrappy old part-RC planes (ok “drones” )provide ample deniability and get the job done.
It’s a smart move, like their Iraqi bros hitting the supply convoys of the War-Criminal/Terrorist Invader/Occupier and torching the haul w/o casualties.
I ask that question too. tempting to read it as propganda as well:(
Damascus probably is providing the oil in exchange for fuels refined at the two modular refineries the Turks set up by Jarabulus.
Very tempting to see who in metioned in the article. By that You see Turks and Assads are the nice Girls and Guys.:(
This was the Kurdish National Council [KNC/ENKS] and the Syrian National Council [SNC] just doing business as usual, well not anymore they’re not. The Kurdish KNC is a member of the Syrian Democratic Council [SDC] and a member of the US backed autonomous regional Government, but at the same time they’re also in cahoots with the Turkish backed SNC, which is a part of the Turkish backed Syrian Interim Government [SIG], so they provide a tangible link between the 2 separate opposition Governments, which is more than just a little unusual to say the least. We all know a dog with 2 masters has no real master at all, and they’re only ever kept because they have a one shot important purpose to serve, so what’s the one shot purpose the KNC is going to serve, or has served for both opposition governments? A few months ago the SDC released a statement confirming it had entered a power sharing deal with the SNC but they didn’t give any details, so I wonder if the deal they made was the one shot purpose the KNC were needed for, or is the real purpose still to be revealed. I don’t know what areas the SNC/KNC were given control of but I suspect it was probably the areas around Manbij, that would certainly make oil smuggling a lot easier to get away with for both the KNC and the SNC.
Now all we need to know is who blew up the oil trucks, was it YPG forces, PKK, SDF, or maybe even Afrin Liberation Forces [ALF], or did the SAA possibly have a hand in this, that’s a lot of suspects. I left out Isis on purpose.
That’s a lot of shrapnel damage on the yellow truck, it looks like an anti personnel fragmentary warhead did that damage.
So many impressive acronyms to obscure the fact that a bunch of low life thugs are the tools for the looting and transportation of Syrian oil. Low life because the “high life” ones are their bosses in Turkey,USa and the banksters.
Do you watched that interview with an filthy US Military War-Criminal a while back, where he bragged how they chose an ‘new’ catchy name/acronym for their Kurdish proxy/merc/terrorists to sell + frame it better in their propaganda.