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With all this radio controlled talk I somehow transferred the PS controller to the driver. Now I'm even less impressed.
The Syrians built a remote turret. Hooray. Welcome to 1945.
http://www.lonesentry.com/articles/remotemg/index.html

I really don't get the negativity. I mean, you have people scrap building weapons platforms, and people are complaining that it isn't cutting edge weapons tech that can stand up to modern rockets?!

It isn't supposed to. It is, as someone commented, an up-armoured technical - a mobile machine gun, a great weapon in a scrappy urban war. It supports infantry units and if the enemy assaults the position with anything big this thing gets the hell out of there, to go support somewhere else.

I am impressed by this. Yes, it is quite technologically unimpressive, but considering the people who actually built it AND their situation.

Like to see you naysayers even build something like that...