From Soviet scraps to backpack drones: the weapons of Libya’s rebels
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posted on 2011-10-01, 00:00authored byN.A.J. Taylor
In the early months, rebel forces fought Colonel Gaddafi’s men using weapons and weapons systems cobbled together using scraps from the Soviet era. As time got on – and thanks to the NATO intervention – rebel weapons became a lot more hi-tech, writes NAJ Taylor.
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Crikey
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shorttitle: From Soviet scraps to backpack drones
urldate: 2018-05-31