Free Syrian Army captures 5000 STG44s

Germany did occupy north Africa.

I assume many ammo and weapons cashes the Americans/Brits forgot were confiscated by local militias long ago.

Lucky Bastards!

Reminds me of those Spitfire fighters found buried in the desert recently!

The concept of finding unused WW2 shit is awesome, imagine finding a never used Tiger Tank buried under your yard or something!

B17 in the loftspace, German U boat in the neighbors hottub, Halftrack on the compost heap, Zeppelin in the garage!

for another hilarious psy-op FAIL by the 'F(CIA)SA'

Sturmgewehr 44 used by Syrian Rebels

[link to www.thefirearmblog.com]

Dude what in the hell are you talking about, they look like originals, probably buried in 1944 by the nazis.

A similar thing happened recently but on the other side of the world with two dozen buried WW2 fighter aircraft.

After World War II, the Soviet Union and other Eastern Bloc states supplied client regimes and guerrilla movements with captured German arms such as the StG 44 along with newly manufactured or repackaged 7.92x33mm ammunition. French forces discovered many in Algeria and determined the origin to be from Czechoslovakia. Examples also found their way into the hands of the Vietcong during the Vietnam War, and the PLO.[28] It is still used in very limited numbers by militia forces in the Middle East[29] as well as some countries in the Horn of Africa. StG 44s have been confiscated from militia groups by U.S. forces in Iraq.

[link to en.wikipedia.org]

"Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar" Sigmund Freud"

CROW

wow shame on you germany feeding which side of the conflict?

The FSA don't deserve these.

They would be better off in a museum.

arent those things selling for about 10 grand a piece in the states... they found a container of Gold... ship them to the US sell them then buy some updated guns....

I highly doubt that these are from Germany.

Lol, they must have found ammo, which is weird because i thought nobody made those obscure WW2 calibers in large amounts these days. Probably a few companies but i doubt in large amounts.

We are not talking surplus 7.62x54r or something, weird ass 7.92x33.

I just loled at one of the comments on this link though..

Quote - "God damn hipster rebels and their ‘vintage’ guns."

It was a very good gun and was in a way the first "assault" style rifle.

Why?

Its not the first time shit like this has been found buried in places like Libya, Morocco etc.

The round is still mass produced and has been for a while in Serbia...

You would think. Guess lot of collectors in the US would give their nutsack for one of them.

Wonder if they had any of the infamous vampyre night vision systems with them.

Lot of old german weapons in eastern europe?

Guys might be onto something then, maybe these were external and brought in over the border.

Could probably tell from serial numbers, if they have them.

LOL, Dude its possible that these have been buried in the ground for 60 years. These guns are nazi guns from WW2.

It is even possible that they are for example czech analogues that were produced by a puppet state of nazi germany in ww2 and have been stored or been on the black market since then and shipped into syria over the border but i think its more likely they were buried.

What are the chances of that ROFLLLLL... Fucking CIA at their tricks again, getting prepared to enter WW3 :D

Lucky terrorist bastards! I personally love the MG42, and MP40 but to find the mother of the AK47 is a bonus!Those fuckers discovered a gold mine!

Last Edited by Pack of $moke$ on 11/09/2012 05:37 AM

The Soviets also made it a habit of shipping seized German weapons to conflict hotspots in Africa and the Middle East.

Plausible deniability and all.

The STG44 is the Original AK47

The point I was trying to make is that the F(CIA)SA

1) Seems more focused on creating/maintaing the media-psyop that it is a "liberating force" while they've been documented constantly as slaughtering their own people

2) It's very LIKELY that they discovered them and were so focused on the media-psyop side of things... that they decided to call them AKs+blame Assad before anything else.

The Interwebz quickly realized the psy-op fail... hence the call out that the guns

1) aren't Assad's
(2) aren't AK47s
(3) are German WWII STG-44(s).

Last Edited by ~Apparitions~ on 11/09/2012 05:35 AM

That wouldn't surprise me at all for almost pristine originals.

I would give my nutsack!!! My wife doesn't use it anymore!!!

The STG44 looks like it would get very hot if it was fired on full auto.

Where does a man hold it? by the clip?

I'll take a Russian made AK, not those cheap eastern euro/Chinese one's.