Syrian regime deploys deadly new weapons on rebels

Source: The Telegraph

Tanks have used the ring roads to fire shells on rebel lines and helicopter gunships swoop to rake enemy positions. Fighter jets have dropped massive bombs that have flattened whole blocks of houses.

But apparently dissatisfied by the level of destruction its munitions are meting out, the regime this week introduced its own homemade bombs.

The bombs are carried on helicopters that have been videoed hovering above targets before the crew pushes the device out to fall to the ground.

Filled with TNT, oil and chunks of steel, the exploding barrels kill and maim across a wider area than high explosives.



Read more: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/syria/9512719/Syrian-regime-deploys-deadly-new-weapons-on-rebels.html

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This barrels are the same that the regime use in past bomb car.


Some video of the damages provoque by this barrels:

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