File talk:Zablatani tower.jpg

Was watching the latest ANNA news output and found myself challenged to locate that view, as it looked reasonably easy to do. ;o)

The tower is quite close to the Damascus center already, and it's an excellent spot with view over the whole city. Jobar is still the center of fighting and it seems the Hafez Al Assad highway/"southern bypass", running roughly parallel to those market halls in the lower right corner of the pic and maybe coming "in sight" at the horizon to the right, still separates battle zone to the west of it and inhabited zone (i.e. Zamalka) to the east of it. Couldn't find proof of Zamalka being still inhabited, though. Just some remarks that they are taking care to keep Jobar and Zamalka cut-off by operations on the highway. --CE (talk) 17:08, 14 September 2013 (UTC)


 * The missile shown in the video is powered by a 107mm motor and has what looks a factory manufactured warhead (spun metal nosecone?). Other instances have been seen, including instances captured by insurgents where the nosecone is more visible (can't find link just now). It appears to be a regularly manufactured munition rather than improvised.


 * This is a different type of missile to the Hezbollah improvised version also used in Syria that uses ex-US military tubing for the payload Hezbollah IRAM, Qusayr
 * --DEADBEEF (talk) 02:33, 2 October 2013 (UTC)