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Libya’s DIY Arsenal Reaches Bizarre New Heights with Truck/Helicopter Hybrid

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They’ve put missiles on the back of a pickup truck. They’ve put a tank cannon on the top of a car. But perhaps the most ingeniously over the top welded-weapon? Strapping captured, Soviet-built helicopter rocket pods to the car’s roof.

https://jalopnik.com/this-is-what-happens-when-your-improvised-missile-truck-5791604

Once again, we see that a lack of new, reliable weaponry is bringing out an amazing kindergarten creativity in Libya’s freedom fighters, combining weapons (effectively!) in ways nobody would have ever imagined. I eagerly await an ICBM zip-tied to a Vespa. [via Danger Room]

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