The Libyan army and the country's Islamist groups are using 'scraps' to construct deadly weapons in their ongoing battle with ISIS.

Incredible images show machine gun turrets and naval guns salvaged from warships mounted on the back of trucks. One even shows two huge missiles resting precariously atop a hatchback.

But the Libyan Nation Army is now running out of scraps to construct these bizarre weapons and is calling on the United Nations to lift an arms embargo preventing them from importing new ones.

The country descended into civil war after Muammar Gaddafi was deposed as its leader - and killed - in October 2011.

Its internationally recognised government has since been exiled to Tobruk - 750 miles east of the capital Tripoli - having been driven out by a collection of Islamist groups known as Libya Dawn.

Neither of these two warring sides controls much formal territory in Libya, which is now also under threat from Islamic State militants.

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Dangerous: Images obtained by Libyan-based bloggers show a host of improvised, deadly weapons...and a picture of a hatchback with missiles perched atop being used by opposition militia Libya Dawn

Surreal: The Libyan army - which has mounted machine gun turrets on trucks to take on ISIS and opposition factions - is running out of scraps to replenish its makeshift armoury

Improvised: The Libyan army supposedly salvaged naval guns (pictured) from defunct warships and fixed them to the back of trucks

Enemy: Opposition forces such as Libya Dawn (pictured), who have been battling government troops since 2011, appear to have equipped their vehicles with huge missiles

Libya Dawn salvaged 'large numbers' of surface-to-air missiles from the vast amount of land it controls, Libyan-based military blog Oryx claims

The arms embargo was implemented during the NATO-backed uprising against him and the United Nations Security Council refused to remove it in March, fearing they would fall into the wrong hands.

But the country's once-plentiful supply of weapons and equipment has since run out and the army is now fashioning arms from Second World War scraps.

Soldiers use weapons dating back to the 1940s in six warehouses in the country's east and transform them into usable arms, the Times reports.

'We are fighting the biggest battle in North Africa. It's as important as Syria and Iraq. And yet we are fighting with ancient patchwork arms,' a Special Forces Commander told them.

Fadel al-Hassi claimed Islamic State and other extremist groups are well armed, well trained and their numbers are worryingly increasing.

Libyan-based Oryx Blog has collected images of bizarre contraptions shared on social media, including those of double-barreled, 30mm naval guns mounted on the backs of trucks.

Force: Other images - which claim to show Libya Dawn weaponry but have not been verified - show rockets being fired from barrels fixed atop rusty jeeps (pictured)

Protected: The makeshift trucks constructed by Libya's armed forces (pictured) - armed with machine guns that fire 700 rounds a minute - also have a metal casing to protect the driver

Armed: Half of this turret was supposedly cut away to allow Libya Dawn forces to aim and access munitions more easily

Salvaged: Oryx claims that Libya Dawn equips its vehicles with a double-barreled 35mm naval gun (pictured) taken from the British-built frigate which was scrapped in the 1990s

Deadly: Some images appear to show Libyan militia soldiers (pictured) loading missiles into a multiple rocket launcher

It claims the guns - which were supposedly picked off defunct warships and can fire 700 rounds a minute - were originally used 'to shoot down incoming missiles and aircraft'.

The rotating turret - armed with the massive machine gun - sits directly behind the cab which is surrounded by metal casing to protect the driver.

ISIS has exploited the violent power struggle between the government troops - who have resorted to using such vehicles - and rebel factions by seizing a number of towns across Libya's coast.

The terror group announced its presence in the country this February by releasing a shocking video in which 21 Coptic Christians were beheaded on a Libyan beach.

And only yesterday, 23 Islamic State fighters reportedly died during fierce clashes with Libya Dawn near Sirte - the home town of Libya's deceased dictator which is currently under ISIS control.

There has been sporadic fighting between ISIS and Libya dawn for over two months, according to a spokesman for the Libya-based group.

Scraps: The Libyan army salvaged two AK-230 machine guns from a Natya-class warship (pictured) before it sunk due to lack of maintenence

Powerful: Oryx claims a truck belonging to Libya Dawn (pictured) driving through Libya in early April carried a 76mm machine gun

Construction: In six warehouses in Libya's east, government soldiers transform weapons dating back to the 1940s into usable arms (one such factory allegedly pictured)

The anti-government faction, which currently controls Libya's capital Tripoli and large cities like Misrata, has also been constructing creative weapons of destruction.

Libya Dawn has its own workshops in Misrata, where it has access to Libya's biggest metal factory and can reportedly manufacture bullets.

It salvaged 'large numbers' of surface-to-air missiles found the vast amount of land it controls - and began fixing them to the backs of vans and trucks, Oryx reports. They claim Libya Dawn has been using the weapons as surface-to-surface rockets.

Adding: 'The original missile only packs a 60 kilograms heavy warhead, which is enough to heavily damage or destroy a potential aerial target but far too light for doing any substantial damage when used in the surface-to-surface role.

'The warhead might also have been replaced by a regular high explosive one, which is more effective than the original high-explosive warhead designed to wreck aircraft.'

Turning point: Libya descended into civil war shortly after their former leader Muammar Gaddafi (pictured) was deposed and killed in October 2011

Escalation: The warring government and rebel factions are now both battling Islamic State militants (pictured), who announced their presence in Libya in February by releasing a gruesome video showing the mass execution of 21 Christians on a Libyan beach

Islamic State's expansion in Libya was helped by this breakdown of state authority and by occupying Sirte over the past four months, they have claimed a major city in the centre of the country.

In Libya, the group deploys locally-recruited fighters, led by envoys sent from Syria and Iraq. Those include Libyans returned from fighting on Syrian and Iraqi frontlines, steeped in the group's ethos of extreme violence and permanent warfare between those it considers true Sunni Muslims and all others.