Syria may be in the midst of a civil war, but that’s not stopping rebels from using the available technological tools to help them fight for their cause.
On 15th September, members of the ‘Ansar Dimachk’ Brigade, which operates under the Free Syrian Army, appear in what at first seems an unusual and surprising stance – a photograph taken by Reuters’s Mohamed Abdullah shows one of the members holding an iPad next to homemade mortar, used to correctly aim the shells.
According to a report by NBC on the matter, it was noted that the iPad makes use of its built in accelerometer, which is, in our opinion, not true in this application.
Evidently the iPad has become a valuable wartime tool for the Syrians (not sure what Apple would have to say about this) as its mapping capabilities have been used in the past to aim weapons at enemy targets.
Watch how the iPad is used in action in the video below:
Source: Daily Mail
