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filled with explosives and shrapnel (the payload). Welded to the payload is about a 2-foot metal tube (the tail) about the same circumference as the cannon's muzzle. The full length of the tail is inserted into the muzzle, forming a tight seal inside the cannon. The payload remains outside the muzzle
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in Aleppo showed a video of them using an improvised cannon that fired a mortar round. A metal tube with one end closed is the cannon barrel. The projectile is a factory-made mortar round. The round is placed into the barrel and it is laid horizontally such as out the opening of a window. On launch,
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but still attached to the tail now inside the cannon. When the cannon is fired, the force of the explosion takes the path of least resistance pushing the projectile towards the target at high velocity. Flight stabilizing fins which are part of the tail ensemble ensure the cylinder doesn't tumble.
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deployed a series of breech-loaded cannons mounted on an hydraulic elevation system on the back of a truck and fires with a pull-string. Albeit described by some
Western mass media as a mysterious 19th-century antique cannon, the gun is in reality a modern improvised artillery piece.
181:. An opposition source said Kadour was killed because he refused to work with IS outside Anadan, demanded exorbitant prices for repairing weapons, and equipping the Hell Cannon and preferred to manufacture arms for their arch-enemy, Khaled Hayani.
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An unnamed variation uses a projectile similar to the hell cannon (a blue gas cylinder) but the tail fins form a flat base. The entire projectile is inserted into a larger diameter cannon, which is the maximum diameter of the projectile.
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The Hell Cannon was followed by the Jahim (Hellfire) Cannon in 2013. This model can fire large ordnance such as water heaters or oxygen cylinders weighing as much as 661 pounds. It was first used in Aleppo's
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to booby-trapping vehicles and repairing weapons, then to manufacturing bombs and cannons. He was killed by IS members and his body was found in a mass grave at the
Institute of Electricity near
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A quad hell cannon fired four Hell
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In April 2015, pictorial evidence of the
Thunder Cannon became available. The projectile is an empty 100mm shell casing from a T-55 tank that has been re-purposed.
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The projectile weighs up to about 88 pounds with three quarters of the weight as explosives. The projectile reportedly has a range of 1.5 kilometers.
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including the
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in and around Aleppo in re-purposed manufacturing businesses that had the tools and materials available. As the
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The
Jahannam (Hell) cannon was first manufactured in 2012 in the Idlib countryside, by the insurgent group
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after IS was expelled from Aleppo. The most famous was Abdo al-Hiriatany, nicknamed 'Karo the
Armenian'.
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A collection of improvised rocket- and mortar projectiles in Aleppo in
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In Aleppo, the Hell Cannon is associated with one of the most famous fighters in
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A hell cannon found after the Battle of Aleppo in
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Factory made and improvised mortar projectiles found in Aleppo.
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703:"Mortar processing and launch into one army points Asadi"
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