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Aug 23, 2022, 6 tweets

[THREAD] - #Pakistan 🇵🇰

Tehrik-i #Taliban Pakistan (#TTP) released a new video of militants' training .

Some militants can be seen with ex-#ANA weapons from #Afghanistan including M24 sniper rifle, M4 carbines with Trijicon ACOG scopes and M16A4 rifle with thermal scope.

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Additionally militants can be seen while operating DShKM heavy machine guns, 107mm Type 85 single-tube rocket launcher and a B-10 pattern 82mm recoilless rifle (likely its Chinese copy: Type 65/-1).

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Also a couple of militants can be seen while carrying an uncommon Pakistani POF-made weapons.

These weapons appear to be an MP5P3 submachine gun (MP5A3 clone) and an MG1A3 machine gun (MG3 clone).

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Besides the noted weapons, an M249 machine gun (from former ANA stocks as well), PK/M machine guns, SVD DMRs, Hungarian AMD-65 rifle and common AKM rifles with several GP-25 underbarrel grenade launchers were used as well.

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In general, it is seen that TTP has increased its modern equipment in addition to the weapons that have been widely used in the region for a long time.

After the Taliban took power in Afghanistan, the use of weapons originating from AFG has increased in various countries.

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