Thread 64500412

Was looking through photos from the '90s through 2001, and saw at least eight MP5s, three FALs, and two Sterlings.
Gonna dump them all. Would appreciate input from anyone who's good at identifying models. Time and place detailed in filenames.

Some sort of HK in the front right. Can't tell if it's an MP5, HK33, G3, etc.

But there's a definite MP5 at the same funeral, so I'm including it.

Unknown HK shows up in same shot as MP5.

This one's interesting.

Onto the FALs.

Center left looks like a FAL to me.

Now the Sterlings. The one in the back LOOKS like a Sterling to me.

THIS, however, is definitely a Sterling of some sort.
These are the strangest ones to me, since I know Israel used to use a model of the FAL before the Galil, and I could see Israel getting MP5s in small numbers, but I have no idea how the fucking Fatah would get their hands on Sterlings. I could only think of the Brits bringing Sterlings into the Palestine Mandate briefly between 1944-1948, and somehow one survives in firing state and ends up in the control of Fatah.

End of dump btw. If anyone has more of Fatah with these weapons please post.

They had various Arab states and other rich factors as sponsors. All of those are very common weapons, there's a lot rarer firearms that ended up in combat zones.

>>64500465
Looks like a swedish k but the front sight doesn't look right.

Iran made tons of MP5 and various other HKs under license
Sterlings are probably from Egypt, Iran, Lebanon, Libya, Sudan etc.

>>64500412 (OP)
Oslo Accords

Israel literally gave them the weapons.

>>64500506
Probably an Egyptian copy of the Swedish K (Port Said), indeed with a different front sight.

whats with all the watermarks?

>>64500925
>photo journalist takes photos of event
>media companies want photos or footage of said event
>media companies pay photographers to use or own said photos


places like getty images are source to purchase photos, but getty is more like a monopoly.
There are sites and tools to work around places like getty images. Not many people outside of large corporations are willing to pay hundreds of dollars to use a photo taken 30+ years ago.

>>64500472
None of the FALs you postes are the Israeli model. Metric pattern 50.00 FALs aren't exactly exotic for that region, they were one of the main weapons of the Syrian Arab Army, they pretty much had AKs and FALs as their service rifles.

The Saddamn-era Iraqi army used Sterlings as their issued submachine gun. Several Lebanese guerrilla forces also used them, along with the Lebanese Army commandos.

Outside of the MP5s none of these weapons are really rare or particularly exotic for the region.l

Iran has been making HK roller locks for decades. They got a license and tooling from HK back in the 70s and has been shitting them out ever since.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kdPWZC2ZyHQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TVhf0uKhfds

>>64500412 (OP)
black markets

>>64500412 (OP)
Fatah were quislings for NATO. They obviously got those from their handlers.

>>64500412 (OP)
they also buy weapons from corrupt idf people