<p>Resourceful Syrian rebels have apparently found or devised an app to aim a homemade mortar that lacked a sighting component, according to a photo taken this week.</p><p>A photo taken on Sept 15 in Damascus shows a member of the Free Syrian Army using an iPad to help fire the mortar.</p><p>Paul Szoldra, a former mortar instructor to the school of infantry of the U.S. Marine Corps, speculated that the iPad is acting like a sight unit on standard issue mortars.</p><p>"The version in the Marine Corps has a sight unit on the left hand side," he told ABC News. "We would get data from a fire direction center, adjust our sights according to the data and make sure it's level before we drop rounds."</p><p><a href="http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/syrian-rebel-ipad-aiming-mortar/story?id=20296936">Keep reading...</a></p><p>Read also:</p><p><a href="http://www.nbcnews.com/technology/syrian-rebels-use-ipad-help-fire-mortar-4B11187474">Syrian rebels use iPad to help fire mortar</a> (NBCNews.com)</p><p><a href="http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_world_/2013/09/18/video_of_free_syrian_army_using_an_ipad_to_aim_mortars.html">Firing Mortars? There&#039;s an App for That.</a> (Slate Magazine (blog))</p><p><a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/photo-syria-rebels-with-mortar-and-ipad-2013-9">Syrian Rebels Are Using iPads To Fire Off Mortars</a> (Business Insider)</p><p>Explore: <a href="http://news.google.com/news/more?ncl=d3KtkAP3KtvPzEMhDi2zAFg9KPHtM&ned=us">27 additional articles.</a></p>