[THREAD]

#ISCAP (#ISIS - Central Africa) released a new video.
It mostly features footages from Democratic Republic of #Congo (#DRC) & shows some of their weapons.

First; rather rare FN FNC and South Korean Daewoo K2 assault rifles can be seen. Both chambered in 5.56x45mm.

1/ Additionally large quantity of AKM and Type 56 rifles, Bulgarian Arsenal AR rifle, RPG-7 & Type 69 RPG Launchers with PG-7V/Type 69-1 and OG-7V projectiles are frequently used by the militants.

A Chinese Type 85 HMG appears as well.

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[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.

1/ 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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#Iran 🇮🇷: #IRGC "#Saberin Special Forces" relesed a video of their training during snowy terrains after the #Hezbollah's video.

The unit seems to be armed with Iranian Sayyad 5.56 rifles (M16 copies), PKM-T80 machine guns, Sa'aban-1 LMG (modified RPK) and "Ashtara" sniper rifle. As usual, the unit seems to be using Iranian weapons mostly.
The video is very similar to the video released by the Radwan Unit in #Lebanon.

[THREAD]
#Lebanon 🇱🇧: #Hezbollah's Special Forces "#Radwan Unit" has released a video of their training in snowy terrain ❄️.

The video shows various interesting scenes including usage of snowmobiles & skis along with shooting and hand-to-hand combat trainings.

1/ In general, the unit appears to be using 5.45x39mm AK-74 & AK-74M rifles mostly —sourced from #Syria.

Rifles seem to be equipped with various scopes and accessories including Aimpoint CompM4 RDS, 1-6x24 scope, GP-25 UBGL, UAS-AK stock and FAB Defense GL-CORE AR15 stock

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#Kazakhstan 🇰🇿: Making a new thread about the firearms used and captured during the protests.

First of all, protestors captured at least two possible PG-7V projectile along with other weapons/ammo, misc items from National Guards in #Almaty etc... #Kazakhstan 🇰🇿: Another video released earlier today shows demonstrators taking a police weapon #Almaty.

The weapon appears to be a tactical shotgun (similar to Mossberg 500/590 variants) with side-folding stock —likely rubber bullets were loaded as well.

[THREAD]
#Nigeria 🇳🇬: #AQ-allied #Ansaru released an #EidAlFitr video on November (it was probably scheduled to be released in 2022).

An interesting AK-103 (AK-103-2 from #Libya or AK-103 from #Mali), Zastava M05E1 & E3 rifles and a stockless Zastava M70B1 rifle can be seen.

1/ Zastava M05E1 rifles are usually smuggled/sourced from #Cameroon. It can be seen in the hands of various groups such as Boko Haram/#JaS and #ISWAP.

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[THREAD]
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#Afghanistan: Turkistan Islamic Party - #Khurasan Branch (#TIP, ex-#ETIM) released a video of the training of their militants.
Most common weapons are M4(A1)s & M16A4s —which are locally quite common. 2/
M4(A1) carbines & M16A4 rifles can be seen with ACOG scopes, Aimpoint CompM4 scopes, ATN ThOR-HD 384/MARS-HD 384 thermal scopes, 40mm M203 UBGL and Knight's Armament QDSS/NT4 suppressor.

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https://twitter.com/war_noir/status/1380266025149685765

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https://twitter.com/war_noir/status/1380967443070341126