For the past few months, the situation in Libya has varied from dire to horrifying; the rebels are fighting to maintain ground and even push whenever they get some help, but the situation they are in is not a good one. Scrambling to arm themselves against organized and trained military and mercenaries, the rebels have started to make use of whatever they can. Here are just a few pictures capturing these attempts:

A Libyan rebel fixing a UB-32 rocket launcher pod, attached to the back of a pickup truck

Just a normal car covered up with armor plating and a canon

Molotov cocktails

Trying to detach weaponry from a part of a destroyed tank

Homemaking a bomb

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