The engineering masterpieces of the Islamists have long deserved a separate article. Indeed, in their "talented" hands, the simplest American pickup truck can, in the shortest possible time, turn into a real chariot of jihad. In the arsenal of terrorists there are armored mining dump trucks, self-made self-propelled guns, pickup carts and even some kind of condom balloons. This exotic technique is forged by "craftsmen" of jihad using a handicraft method, in purely field conditions.
The most popular among terrorists are the former civilian pickups Toyota and Mitsubishi, in the body of which a large-caliber machine gun, a mortar, and sometimes even a whole MLRS taken from a downed helicopter are usually mounted. The survivability of such cars is a big question, since often the combustion products of NURSs set fire to the "chariot" itself. The consumption of military equipment is subject to the golden rule of the suicide bomber: "one vehicle for one salvo."
In November last year, a video appeared on YouTube, which showed a workshop for the production of rather specific air defense equipment - condoms inflated with volatile gas with explosives tied to them. British journalists joked at the time that the terrorists had chosen the most "safe" method of fighting the Russian aircraft.
Suicide attacks continue to be one of the main tactics of the Caliphate. To attack specially protected objects, terrorists collect armored mastodons in their workshops, designed to overcome any barricades in their path. A striking example is the BelAZ mining dump truck sheathed with steel sheets, intended to attack the Syrian airbase T4.
Sometimes even an ordinary motorcycle can be converted into a destructive suicide bomb.
I present to your attention a homemade ACS FSA, mounted on a light truck chassis. This exhibit was discovered in the vicinity of Damascus in January last year. The cannon of the "complex" is designed for firing powerful high-explosive shells weighing no more than 10-15 kilograms.
