Rare rocket launchers from North Korea spotted in Libya

Field Marshal Haftar's Libyan National Army conducted one of the largest tactical exercises. The 106th Infantry Brigade and the Air Force were involved in them. Among the demonstrated military equipment, quite rare samples were also noticed.

Combat training operations unfolded at a training ground located on the seashore. The tasks of landing and defense of the coast were worked out here. Initially, specially trained scuba divers and sappers were landed from motor boats, clearing the directions of the upcoming attack from mines. In the second wave, the fighters who captured the fortifications approached.

To counter the enemy ships, a group of T-72M1, T-62 and T-55 tanks advanced. They were covered by ZSU-23-4 "Shilka" anti-aircraft self-propelled guns and Toyota pickups with ZU-23-2 rapid-fire guns mounted on them. These combat vehicles destroyed the shields depicting enemy watercraft.

Before the next stages of the exercises, samples of equipment in service with the compound were demonstrated. In addition to tanks, these are also infantry fighting vehicles BMP-1 and armored personnel carriers BTR-60PB. Interestingly, not all the "sixties" have regular weapons, instead of the machine guns they have conventional PCs installed on their towers.

Artillery is represented by 130-mm guns M-46, rather old 122-mm howitzers of the 1938 model M-30 and 122-mm self-propelled artillery 2S1 "Carnation".

They showed two BM-11 North Korean-made jet systems that have become quite rare for Libya. They are a lightweight version of the BM-21 and instead of 40, as in the original, they have 30 guides. These MLRS are made on the chassis of Japanese Isuzu all-terrain vehicles.

Also, for the first time in a long time, the MTU-55 tank bridge-laying machines with 16-meter folding "scissors" were lit up.

Then the troops landed from the Mi-17 helicopter, liberated the object located in the desert. Under the cover of aviation and after the Grad strike, mechanized infantry was thrown into the offensive, completely defeating the conditional enemy.

Alexey Moiseev