20111210 Reuters (Reuters) - Militias in the Libyan city of Misrata have built up a vast arsenal of weapons, presenting the country's new rulers with a test of their ability to assert their authority over disparate armed groups.
Below is an approximate list of the weapons and ammunition seen during visits last week to four weapons sites in Misrata.
The list represents only a fraction of the arms in the city as there are many more weapons stores to which Reuters did not have access.
Tanks (T-55 & T-72) 38
Self-propelled guns 9
Armored personnel carriers 7
Tank transporters 4
signals unit 1
heavy mortars 10
Armed pick-up trucks 18
Mortar rounds 2480
tank rounds 312
Helicopter rocket pods 21
Mortar warheads 4500
Grad rockets 536
Helicopter-fired anti-tank warheads 10 boxes
Shoulder-fired surface-air missiles 2
Small arms ammunition 155 boxes
Grad launchers 13
Field guns 16
artillery rounds 202
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