It took the Kurdish fighters days to figure out how to fire the homemade mortar, but when they did, it worked. (FoxNews.com)
FOX News: Kurds hit ISIS with makeshift mortar stolen from the terror army
The makeshift mortar looked like something from an old pirate ship, and it took the Kurdish fighters several days to figure out how to use the improvised weapon seized in a skirmish with ISIS.
When they finally did, they crouched behind sandbags and launched a series of homemade shells found with the device at a village held by the terrorist group a mile away. As each projectile blasted off from the 8-foot tube mounted on a pair of tires, culminating in a puff of smoke on the horizon, members of Kurdistan’s army, known as the Peshmerga, laughed and slapped each other on the back.
”I hope they felt it like I felt the pain I felt in my arm," said a soldier named Ali, still nursing a wound from the recent fight near Sinjar where the curious armament had been found.
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WNU Editor: A look at how mortars are made from shop to field can be seen here.
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