The discovery of the Peshmerga, which took place two weeks ago in a dusty outpost near the city of Kirkuk, confirmed Western fears (or confirmed what the books have always said: evolution on the battlefield).
The military has found two different platforms built 'in the house' by fundamentalists and which demonstrate the increasing adaptability of the Caliphate on the battlefield.
The first device found is a sniper rifle modified and adapted to be mounted on a steel platform capable of rotating 360 degrees. The weapon system is equipped with a computer to keep track of goals. It is therefore a remote sniper position.
The second system discovered is a reinforced truck loaded with explosives protected by two-inch-thick steel plates. These trucks had their baptism of fire during the battle of Ramadi against the headquarters of Iraqi loyalist troops. Armor protects the vehicle from enemy fire, allows it to break through checkpoints and head without exploding towards the target.
According to the Peshmerga, the terrorists have begun to mass-produce high-tech equipment. This shows (if ever there were still need for it) that the Islamic State, that multiethnic army that continues to expand its domains, possesses the military know-how of half the world (perhaps it would be better to say than the whole globe), without considering US equipment stolen from regular troops (from sniper rifles to tanks).
In the province of Anbar, where ISIS is fighting the Iraqi army, terrorists mainly use weapons stolen from defeated enemies. But on the northern front, where the Peshmerga are active, the militiamen of the Islamic State are increasingly using modified equipment, far superior to that of regular troops.
That sniper rifle shown does not seem to be a propaganda toy. The rifle is connected to a shooting computer that controls all the parameters necessary to allow the remote user to fire in complete safety, looking at the lens through a high definition camera installed on the system.
Computers and cables are English-made, while some improvements are attributable to the Chechens, considered the best troops who have espoused the cause of the caliphate. The armored truck is also equipped with an armored turret that houses heavy machine guns. Inside the vehicle, there are hundreds of containers for the C4 plastic.
He is judged by both terrorists and loyalists, as the "supreme suicide" weapon.
Armored trucks are so feared that the Peshmerga refuse to take on them in the open. Although the sending of Italian recoilless "Folgore" guns was appreciated, the Kurds preferably rely on Allied air raids to eliminate them.
Franco Iacch
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(photo: Gavin John)
