Syrian rebels have taken to using an iPad app to help guide mortar fire. Rebels were
photographed using an iPad reportedly equipped with the iHandy Level Free app, deployed as a method for ensuring that the mortar tube is level. Novel though this may be, reporter Paul Szoldra, who served in the U.S. Marine Corps for nine years, is dubious of the iPad’s effect. Even with the iPad, he says, it looks like the rebels are “dropping a round and praying.”
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Syrian Rebels Use iPads to Target Weapons
Posted by: David Vranicar September 18, 2013 09:46 AMSyrian rebels have taken to using an iPad app to help guide mortar fire. Rebels were
photographed using an iPad reportedly equipped with the iHandy Level Free app, deployed as a method for ensuring that the mortar tube is level. Novel though this may be, reporter Paul Szoldra, who served in the U.S. Marine Corps for nine years, is dubious of the iPad’s effect. Even with the iPad, he says, it looks like the rebels are “dropping a round and praying.”