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Old May 28th, 2011, 07:51 AM

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Default Re: Syrian OOB

One more thing as for SP-ATGMS: article in Tekhnika i Vooruzhenie 4/2006 lists following ATGMS supplied to Syria: Shmel, Malyutka, Fagot and Konkurs. If it's true, then Shmel would be most likely GAZ 2P26 launcher, used also by Egypt. Note, that there's no Falanga.

The article also lists APC supplied: BTR-152, BTR-60PB and BTR-70 (missing in oob). I wonder, if listing specifically BTR-60PB means, that earlier turretless versions weren't supplied. Listing BTR-152 without "K" may be a hint, that open-top variants only were supplied (BTR-152K wasn't popular vehicle anyway).

Unit #169 Mig-27 - Wikipedia doesn't list Syria as user.

Units 500-501, 510-513 - SP-SAMs' names could be changed to original S-75 Dvina, S-125 Neva, Strela-1, Osa (I don't know which variant), Strela-10 (I don't know which variant) and Kvadrat (export variant of Kub).

#596 Buried PzIV - possibly better icon would be 429 (longer barrel, rear turret basket)

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