NonCredibleDefense @sh.itjust.works uservoid1 @lemmy.world 5 mo. ago

You take the pirate out of the sea, not the sea out the pirate

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

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Can we call the people using this "truckaneers"?
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
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.
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:

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