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.
A photo taken on Sept 15 in Damascus shows a member of the Free Syrian Army using an iPad to help fire the mortar.
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.
“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.”
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Syrian rebels use iPad to help fire mortar (NBCNews.com)
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Syrian Rebels Are Using iPads To Fire Off Mortars (Business Insider)
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