Libya's War Wagons
The modified pickup trucks that helped bring down Muammar Qaddafi
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The military operation that toppled Muammar Qaddafi was really two campaigns, and they couldn’t have been more different. While NATO jets fired laser-guided missiles at Qaddafi’s forces from above, the coalition of militias on the ground relied on decidedly more homemade hardware.
The Libyan army had tanks and armored troop carriers; the rebels used “technicals”—pickup trucks with weaponry welded willy-nilly onto the back like something out of Mad Max.