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#SAA & allies were able to take parts of Al-Eis town but withdrew to Al-Hadher when they couldn't take Al-Eis Hill, #JN still in control

 

 

#Russia MoD says an #RuAF Mi-28 crashed in #Syria killing 2 pilots, "was not shot down" - Interfax

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US arms shipment to Syrian rebels detailed (By Jane's Defence Weekly).

 

And part of that article from BMPD (as it is not fully shown in the link, translation from Russian by Google):

 

   In recent months, FBO published two requests for the carriage of hazardous goods from Eastern Europe to the Jordanian port of Aqaba in the interests of the US Navy maritime transport. In the first application of the November 3, 2015 require the carrier 81 container with explosive cargo from Constanta to Aqaba. Subsequently, the application has been detailed, it was clarified that the load weight is 994 tons, half of which followed unload a Turkish military base Agadar, and the rest - in Aqaba.

   In the list of the goods appear AK, PKM machine guns, heavy machine guns DSK, RPG-7 anti-tank 9K111M "Factor" (complex 9K113 "Konkurs-M") with a tandem warhead. The remaining cargo accounted for ammunition for these weapons, as well as the 14.5-mm machine guns and 82-mm mortars. A significant part of grenades for RPG-7 is of the type RG-7W with a tandem warhead.

 

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   According to the newspaper, knowing the mass of the goods, you can roughly estimate the number of delivered weapons. Thus, given the known mass of ATRA can be delivered and 50 launchers 796-854 missiles, depending on the type of packaging. On the missile is not more than 2% by weight of the cargo.

 

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Geysir Container ship of the company Transatlantic Lines under the US flag.

 
   November 19 the Transatlantic Lines company received a contract , a vessel belonging to the company Geysir (IMO: 7710733) December 5 committed flight from Constanta. Available on a ship automatic identification system transmitter includes irregularly, but you can trace the course of the ship for the next 10 days. Obviously, it passed to the north of Cyprus on Agalar, then went course to Egypt, the Suez Canal and proceeded appeared in the northern part of the Gulf of Aqaba, which disappeared on 15 December. The next day, the ship reappeared in the Gulf of Suez.
 
   February 5, 2016 on the website FBO, a second application, according to which the required dangerous goods transport from Burgas to Aqaba. It does not include a list of items, but it is known that the weight of the load is about twice larger than the previous. It was reported that the cargo includes 117 containers an average weight of 25 thousand pounds (11,340 kg), that is, the total mass of up to 2007 tons. That is, the net weight of the load reaches 162 tons.
 
   The contract was awarded to 25 February Schuyler Line Navigation Company, belonging to her ship Corsica (IMO: 9222352) left Burgas March 28. Although the proposal did not appear Agadar and Constanta, Corsica is actually one in a repeated Geysir route. Both ships made a stop before the passage of the Suez Canal in order to take on board an armed guard of no less than four people. Automatic transmitter was turned off after the passage of the Suez Canal on 4 April.
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Container ship Corsica of the Schuyler Line Navigation Company, under the flag of the USA
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   Near Al-Eis, a MilitariMediaSy reporter was killed yesterday. Ali Hassan al-Alawi (Mahdi), born in 1994 from Nubbol in Aleppo.

A student of the law faculty of the University of Aleppo.
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The handguards and A1 style upper give that away as a Chinese-built Norinco CQ, or perhaps more likely the Iranian version.

 

Which would make that a clone of a clone.  And still copied closely enough that aftermarket stocks fit on it!

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