It doesn't to me.
Michael Yon : Online Magazine � Blog Archive � What in the World is This?If you can identify it, put in a comment over at his site.
In the face of all this “new” controversy about “foreign” weapons in the battle space, I recalled some of the many photos I.ve taken of caches of weapons captured by Iraqi and American forces in Iraq. The photo above is from one of these.
None of the military persons who've seen the photo were able to identify the weapon depicted in it.
It almost looks more like a toy. Wide in the back, a pipe forward - if this were a toy, that'd make some sense. By the handgrip, it's about 5 inches in diameter toward the rear. The shoulder stock is... crude. I don't see any way of holding and aiming it comfortably. A recoilless rifle of some kind? No, because it almost seems like this was designed to be fired prone... A scope for aiming, which implies fairly good long distance accuracy (or hoped for, at any rate...) which implies a fair bit of range. Maybe a missile launcher?
It'd be nice to see the diameter of the bore. That'd help a lot.
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J.