Somebody’s Popping Off Laser-Guided Shells in Libya Arnaud Delalande On Nov. 5, 2017, the website Libya Times published on social media photos of the remnants of an unexploded guided artillery projectile, but misidentified... On Nov. 5, 2017, the website...
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Somebody’s Popping Off Laser-Guided Shells in Libya Arnaud Delalande On Nov. 5, 2017, the website Libya Times published on social media photos of the remnants of an unexploded guided artillery projectile, but misidentified... On Nov. 5, 2017, the website Libya Times published on social media photos of the remnants of an unexploded guided artillery projectile, but misidentified it as a U.S.- made Excalibur. War Is Boring identified the munition as a Chinese GP1 guided 155-millimeter artillery munition — a licensed copy of the Russian 30F39 Krasnopol guided shell. Libya Times reported that the shell was fired on Nov. 1 near Wearshafana, on the outskirts of Tripoli, by forces loyal to Osama Al Juwaili as they attacked the Fourth Brigade led by Brig. Bashir Najih. Al Juwaili, who served as Libya’s defense minister in 2011 and 2012, commands the Zintan Revolutionaries’ Military Council, which formed in 2011. The Zintan Military Council is neither an active opponent nor a close ally of Marsh
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