Russian Victory Lap Train Filled with Curious Syrian Trophies (PHOTOS)

Russia’s “Syria Train” is set to stop at dozens of cities in the country to show off booty supposedly captured in the Middle East. (Photos: Russian Ministry of Defense)

While Syria was a French colony from 1919 through 1946, the 9mm MAT-49 came after and were bought in the 1960s for use by Syrian special operations units.

The StGs likewise made it into Syria from East German stocks at during the early 1960s and an entire warehouse full of the classic rifles was found by rebels in 2015. As for the FAL and M16A1, they have been provided to numerous parties in the Sandbox for generations.

Note the FN MAG 58 machine gun, left, as well as the UZI and what looks like a Steyr MPi 69 sub gun on the wall

DIY drones and RPGs. Also, is that a homemade anti-material rifle to the right?

The staple of Middle Eastern military conflicts: the armed Toyota

Mad Max wouldn’t touch Syria

There is a Hummer somewhere under there. ISIS reportedly captured large numbers of these from the Iraqi National forces

Ditto

Anybody missing a Jeep Grand Cherokee that made it through the Cash-4-Clunkers era?

A South African RG-31 Nyala MRAP, with aftermarket parts from a T-72

This tank started off as a T-55 about a half-century ago and now has morphed into its final aloha snackbar form